Remote-controlled car bomb kills 11 A POWERFUL remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims killed at least 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest overnight, police said. The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan. "A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11 people, including nine Shiite pilgrims and two escorting policemen," said senior local police official Hamid Shakeel. It was a remote controlled blast. The bomb was planted in a car and exploded as the bus passed by it," he said, adding that more than 20 people were injured in the attack. Two other senior police officials confirmed the explosion and casualties. Manzoor Ahmed, a bomb disposal squad official, said the improvised explosive device weighed more than 30 kilograms. The attack comes a day after a bomb planted under a tea stall at a railway station in southwestern Pakistan killed seven people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others. Baluchistan has become an increasing flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, who account for about one fifth of the country's 167 million population.