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The site of a double suicide bombing is seen from atop a fire truck in Quetta September 7, 2011.
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers targeting a senior security official struck near government offices in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing 20 people, a police official said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Pakistan's Taliban militants, who are close to al Qaeda, often carry out such attacks under a campaign designed to topple the U.S.-backed government.
Autonomy-seeking militants demanding a greater share of the profits from oil and other resources in the province of Baluchistan, of which Quetta is the capital, have also waged a low-level insurgency for decades.
One of the suicide bombers blew himself up in a vehicle packed with explosives near the car of the deputy head of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Baluchistan, Farrukh Shehzad.
Shehzad was wounded and his wife was killed, police said.
The other suicide bomber struck inside his house. The dead included seven of Shehzad's guards. The explosions brought down the walls of his house and nearby offices.
A man drenched in blood sat dazed beside the road next to the dead body of his baby. Auto-rickshaws were ripped apart by the force of the blasts.
Although al Qaeda is believed to be reeling from the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by U.S. special forces in May, the Pakistani Taliban are still highly effective.
They carried out a series of high-profile attacks to avenge bin Laden's death.
Pakistan's military has staged several major offensives against the Taliban which have been described as a success. But they have failed to contain the militants.
The autonomy-seeking militants, who are not linked to the Taliban, attack infrastructure, including natural gas facilities, and the security forces.
(Reporting by Gul Yusufzai; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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