Bomb attacks in Pakistan wounded 17 people on Wednesday and targeted an election candidate.

Bomb attacks in Pakistan wounded 17 people on Wednesday and targeted an election candidate.

The first attack was sectarian, near a mosque and a private hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta, injuring 13 people, police said.

The bicycle bomb exploded in the Satellite Town area of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich province of Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.

Police official Fayaz Sumbal said the target was not clear as the injured were mainly bystanders and there was no immediate claim of responsibility.

In the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said another bomb wounded four people outside the home of a local leader in the Pakistan People's Party, which is seeking re-election at the ballot box on May 11 after five years in power.

A third bomb hit the convoy of an election candidate, Israr Ullah Gandapur, seeking re-election as an independent.

Police said the attack happened in the northwestern district of Dera Ismail Khan, but that Gandapur escaped unhurt.