At least seven people including a chairman of a union council were killed in a bomb explosion in Balochistan's Panjgur district on Monday night, reported the 24NewsHD TV channel. 

Levies sources said a vehicle was targeted through a remote-controlled blast in the Balgatar area of the Kech district near the Panjgur border. Ishaq Balgatri, the UC chairman was among the dead.

"The victims were going in a vehicle for a wedding party when targeted," Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove confirmed. He said miscreants targeted the vehicle through a remote-controlled bomb.

A levies official disclosed that the blast happened 140 kilometers away from Panjgur near the Kech district's border. Panjgur and Kech also share borders with Iran. 

Dozens of deadly attacks on security forces and government-backed groups have taken place in the area before.