Eight people were killed and several injured in two separate blasts in Pakistan on Saturday. Militants attacked a strategic tunnel in the Northwestern part of the country killing eight persons and injuring 14. Officials say, the Japanese-built Kohat tunnel, which links Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa capital Peshawar to southern parts of the province, was first targeted with an explosives-laden truck that entered the structure and blew up. In the second attack, an oil tanker packed with explosives hit a check post manned by army and paramilitary personnel outside the tunnel. The tunnel was closed after the attacks and security forces cordoned off the area. In another blast near Quetta city of southwest Pakistan, at least five persons, including a child and two policemen, were injured when a suspected car bomb went off in a congested neighbourhood. The bomb, believed to have been planted in a car parked outside a school in Alamdar Road, went off at about 11 am local time. The powerful blast, which destroyed the car, was heard from several kilometres away and caused panic in parts of Quetta. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.