The bomb was planted in a motorcycle parked outside a shop killed 5 persons and injuring 20 others, a senior police official said

A powerful bomb blast ripped through a busy market in Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province on Monday, killing five persons and wounding 20 others, police said.

The blast took place in Chaman's Mall Road and a number of vehicles were damaged in the attack.

The bomb was planted in a motorcycle parked outside a shop killed 5 persons and injuring 20 others, a senior police official said.

The injured have been shifted to a hospital for treatment, the officer said.

Chaman is considered a sensitive town in Baluchistan as it shares a border with Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province. In March this year, at least nine people were injured in an explosion near the Levies Lines of the town.