At least three people are killed in Pakistan's restive south-western city of Quetta Sunday after a remote-controlled bomb exploded near a police van.<br/> <br />No one is claiming responsibility for the attack.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) QUETTA POLICE CHIEF, MIR ZUBAIR JABBAR, SAYING:<br/> <br />"The bomb was planted on this donkey cart. It was detonated as the police van came near. So far, three people are dead and one policeman is injured."<br/> <br />Quetta is the provincial capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province. Baluch militants have been waging a low-level insurgency for decades to win more autonomy and control over the natural resources of their impoverished region.<br/> <br />Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda and Taliban are also active in the region that borders Afghanistan and Iran.<br/> <br />Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
