Pakistan ? A powerful bomb ripped through a bus carrying employees from the armed forces, while a device tied to a motorcycle went off in a commercial district near Pakistan’s capital today, authorities and local media said. At least 15 people were killed in the blasts.

The first bomb exploded on a bus traveling through Rawalpindi, a garrison city about seven miles southwest of Islamabad, killing at least 10 people, army spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad said. In addition to the dead, several people were injured.

Mohammed Afzal, an area police official, said the 72-seater bus belonged to the Pakistan army and was destroyed in the blast. Arshad didn’t confirm that the bus belonged to the army.

As the ambulances were transporting victims from the bus blast, a second bomb went off in one of Rawalpindi’s commercial districts, killing at least five people, Afzal said.