Pakistan vegetable market bomb kills 16, half of them minority Hazaras

Rescue workers and army soldiers gather at the site of a blast at a vegetable market in Quetta, Pakistan April 12, 2019. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb hidden between bags of potatoes at an outdoor Pakistani market killed at least 16 people on Friday, half of them ethnic Hazaras, officials said, in an attack apparently aimed at minority Shi'ite Muslims.

At least 30 people were wounded in the blast in the southwestern city of Quetta, capital of resource-rich Baluchistan province, officials said.