Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Thursday sent a message of condolence to his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri over the deadly bomb attack in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province.

A bomb exploded near a bus stop in a local market in the town of Hub early on Thursday, killing as many as 26 people.

Hub lies in some 600 km southeast of Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan province.

(Xinhua News Agency July 20, 2007)