Six injured in grenade attack in Quetta, Gaspipeline blown up in Dera Bugti
QUETTA: Six people were wounded Monday when masked men on a motorbike lobbed a hand grenade at a gathering of people in the Balochistan province, police said.
DSP Sadar Khalid Manzoor told DawnNews that some people were sitting outside a tent in a street on Brewary road when assailants riding a motorbike hurled a grenade at them.
Six people including two children received injuries as the result of the attack. Police shifted the injured to Bolan Medical Complex hospital where their condition is stated to be stable.
The attack came as people were attending a religious ceremony in a tent in the provincial capital Quetta, Manzoor told AFP.
‘The hand grenade missed the target and landed outside the tent, otherwise the casualties would have been heavy,’ Manzoor said. ‘It was a terrorist act. The culprits could be those who are opposed to peace in the region,’ he added.
Police have started an investigation.
Gas-rich Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, is rife with militant and sectarian violence.
Hundreds of people have died since an insurgency flared in late 2004 in Baluchistan, where rebels are demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region’s natural resources.
Another cop shot dead in Quetta - 07.06.2009
QUETTA: Yet another Punjabi-speaking policeman was shot in Quetta on Saturday, the latest in a string of ongoing target killings in the city. According to reports, unidentified men killed the policeman responsible for guarding the Sarawan House, the private residence of Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani. Authorities in Quetta said unidentified individuals had opened fire on Hawaldar Zulfiqar Ali of the Balochistan Constabulary, while he was resting at his residence. After completing the legal and medical formalities, the hospital authorities in Quetta handed over the body to the relatives of the deceased.
