A suicide bombing at a train station in southwestern Pakistan on Friday killed at least 24 people, according to a senior local government official.

Police say at least 24 people have been killed after a bomb exploded at a railway station in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Dozens of others were injured in the blast, which happened as a popular morning train was about to leave Quetta station in southwestern Pakistan for Peshawar.

A banned ethnic separatist group in a restive province claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in Quetta, the provincial capital.

Pakistani officials say the death toll from a powerful bombing at a Quetta rail station in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday rose to 20.

STORY: A security camera captured the moment a deadly blast went off at a busy train station in southwest Pakistan on Saturday ().It killed at least two dozen people and injured more than 40, many of them critically.

Powerful bombing at a Quetta rail station in southwestern Pakistan kills 4 and wounds 25, government spokesperson says

The attack happened when nearly 100 passengers were waiting for a train to travel to the garrison city of Rawalpindi from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, according to Hamza Shafqaat, a senior government administrator.

Officials say a suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 26 people, including soldiers, and wounding 62 others

A powerful bombing at a Quetta rail station in southwestern Pakistan killed four people and wounded 25 others, a government spokesperson said Saturday. Shahid Rind said the bombing happened when passengers were waiting for a train to travel to the garrison city of Rawalpindi from Quetta,