Multan, March 2 (Reuters): A bicycle bomb exploded near a flyover in the central Pakistani city of Multan today, killing three policemen and wounding several including an anti-terrorism judge, police and hospital officials said.

“We received dead bodies of two policemen while a third one expired at the hospital,” said Gul Nawaz, chief medical official at the Nishter Hospital.

Six policemen and two passers-by were also wounded by the remote-controlled device that appeared to target the judge's car, Additional Inspector General Police Mirza Mohammad Ali said.

“The bomb was planted on a bicycle and went off as the car of the special judge, Bashir Ahmed Bhatti, passed by,” he said.