ISLAMABAD, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- At least one person was killed and 17 others were injured when a suicide bomber hit a security forces vehicle in Pakistan's southwestern city of Chaman in Balochistan province on Monday evening, local Urdu channel Geo TV reported.
According to the reports, the attack took place at about 6:35 p.m. local time when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest near a security forces vehicle in Chaman, a city located on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, killing one citizen on the spot and leaving 17 others injured.
The vehicle was on its way to the "Friendship Gate," a crossing point at Pak-Afghan border, when it came under the attack, said a senior official of a paramilitary force, adding that security personnel were among the injured people.
Rescue teams and law enforcement agencies rushed to the site immediately after the blast and shifted the body and injured to a hospital.
All the injured have been shifted to the Civil Hospital Chaman, where the doctors said that the death toll might further rise as some of the injured people are in critical condition.
Security forces have cordoned off the area and kicked off a search operation in the surroundings to arrest the facilitators of the suicide bomber.
Pakistani Authorities have closed "Friendship Gate" in Chaman for all kinds of transportation between the two countries after the attack for an indefinite time.
No group has claimed the attack yet.
