Bomb blast kills Pakistani journalist on World Press Freedom Day

A bomb blast in southwestern Pakistan ripped through the car of a regional journalist Friday, killing him and two passersby on World Press Freedom Day. Local police said that the afternoon attack in the Khuzdar district of Baluchistan province injured seven people, mostly passersby. They identified the slain journalist as Siddique Mengal, the district press club president, and said he apparently was the target. Ghulam Mustafa Rind, an area police officer, told VOA by phone that Mengal was wheeling slowly …