The workers were on their way to a market when the vehicle carrying them was hit by an explosion. Pakistan's restive Balochistan border region has seen a surge in violence in recent years.

Security forces launched a counteroffensive in Kalat district, killing 23 Baloch Liberation Army fighters in response to coordinated attacks.

Authorities in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province said Friday that at least 11 coal mine workers were killed and six injured when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb. The early morning incident occurred near a coal mine in the Harnai district of the insurgency-hit province, which is rich in natural resources.

Officials said an improvised explosive device struck a vehicle carrying coal miners in the country’s southwest.

At least 11 people have been killed and others wounded after a bomb struck a vehicle carrying labourers in southwestern Pakistan.

A devastating explosion in Balochistan's Harnai region on Friday claimed the lives of at least nine labourers and left seven others critically injured, The Express Tribune reported on Friday. The blast occurred when a bomb planted on the road detonated near a vehicle carrying coal miners.