A powerful bomb exploded on a passenger train in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least three people and wounding 10 others, abc news network reported, quoting officials.

The bomb went off near the village of Mach in the Baluchistan province, railways official Tufail Ahmad said.

He said the train was heading to the garrison city of Rawalpindi in the eastern Punjab province from Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan at the time. Ahmad said the casualties were taken to nearby hospitals and that some of the wounded passengers were listed as being in critical condition. 

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but separatist groups in the province have claimed similar attacks in the past.

Source: MENA