Nine die in attack

QUETTA: Nine people were killed and more than 35 injured  on Saturday when a suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up near a  security forces truck in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta,  officials said. Two of the dead were paramilitary soldiers while seven  were civilians, police said citing initial reports. The bombing took  place outside district courts in Quetta where a truck was picking up  soldiers who had been on a routine security patrol. A paramilitary  spokesman confirmed the bombing and said that two soldiers had died and  10 others had been wounded. “Two of our soldiers were martyred in the  bombing and 10 others were wounded,” a paramilitary spokesman told AFP.