Bomb attacks in Pakistan on Wednesday left 10 people including five soldiers dead and at least 18 others wounded, officials said.
Bomb attacks in Pakistan on Wednesday left 10 people including five soldiers dead and at least 18 others wounded, officials said. 
A powerful bicycle bomb exploded in a crowded car repair market in the restive southwestern city of Quetta at around sunset, killing at least five people and wounding 17.
Earlier in the day five Pakistani soldiers were killed in the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border when a roadside bomb went off.
Two soldiers died at the scene while three of the four others seriously wounded later succumbed to their injuries.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for either attack.
"Number of martyred soldiers due to IED (Improvised Explosive Device) attack in South Waziristan has risen up to five," a senior security official told AFP.
Homemade roadside bombs are a major weapon for militants who attack government forces in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal districts bordering Afghanistan.
A hospital official in Quetta, the capital of insurgency-hit Baluchistan province, confirmed the death toll from the bicycle bomb attack.
"We have received five dead bodies and 17 injured people from the blast site," Rasheed Jamali, a doctor at Quetta's civil hospital, told AFP.
The city's Bomb Disposal Squad said the explosive device planted in the bicycle was remote-controlled.
"Up to seven kilogrammes of explosives were packed in a remote control bomb planted on a bicycle in the auto repair market," Abdul Razaq, a senior official from the squad, told AFP.
Pakistan's northwest and southwest regions are constant targets of Islamic insurgents who carry out attacks against minorities and the government forces.
The oil-and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Afghanistan and Iran has also been badly hit by a decade-long Baluch separatist insurgency.
Police in Quetta however have not identified a target for the attack.
"Apparently, the bomb was planted in a bicycle parked in the market. We are not aware of any specific target of this attack," Azhar Shah, a senior police official, told AFP.
