Multan: A blast killed two men carrying explosives on Saturday when their bicycle hit a bump in the road on the outskirts of a town in Pakistan's central province of Punjab, according to police.
''The head of one man has been blown off, while the blast damaged legs and head of the other man,'' Deputy Superintendent Bashir Ahmed said at Chichawatni, a town some 120 km (75 miles) north of Multan, the main city in southern Punjab.
Pakistan is in the grip of a nationwide security scare having suffered a series of suicide bomb attacks in recent weeks, and police have also arrested several would-be suicide bombers.
Suicide bombers have killed over 40 people since mid-January in cities around the country.
Factions of a Sunni Muslim sectarian group with close links to al-Qaeda are suspected of being behind a number of the attacks.
Intelligence officials have also thrown suspicion on Pakistani Taliban militants as the spate of bomb attacks was preceded by a military air strike on one of their bases in the restive Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Police were unsure what kind of attack the men on the bike were planning.
''We don't know whether they wanted to carry out a suicide attack or plant the explosives somewhere,'' Ahmed said, adding that initial investigations suggested the explosive was homemade.
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