At least six people were killed and eight wounded, two of them seriously, when a bomb exploded this morning in Gujrat in Pakistan's Punjab province.
A senior police official said three men, a woman and two children were killed by the blast, which occurred in front of a private school as it closed and children were leaving.
Gujrat, a district bordering the restive Jammu area in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir state, is located 160 km south of Islamabad.
The other six injured people were not in immediate danger. Police said the bomb went off in a motorcycle rickshaw.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, the latest in a series of explosions across Pakistan that have killed scores of people this year.
Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf vowed this month to control spiralling violence in the country after the high-profile murder of a businessman in the port city of Karachi last month shocked the nation.