FACTBOX-Security Developments In Pakistan, Jan 14

The police were Shi'ite Muslims and the attack followed several other suspected sectarian attacks, Nasir said.

QUETTA - Gunmen on motorcycles killed four policemen, including a senior officer, in an apparent sectarian attack in the southwestern city of Quetta, said senior police officer Wazir Khan Nasir.

The police were Shi'ite Muslims and the attack followed several other suspected sectarian attacks, Nasir said.

DERA BUGTI - A bomb planted on a parked motorcycle wounded 12 people, including four paramilitary soldiers in Dera Bugti district, about 500 km (310 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, where Baluch nationalists have been fighting a low level insurgency for years.