QUETTA, Aug 22: The township of Kohlu came under a rocket attack on Monday soon after the arrival there of Chief Minister Jam Yousuf. Sources said that the chief minister visited he area to review arrangements for the second phase of the local body elections.
The sources said that four rockets were fired at around 3.30pm from Jandran mountains in the north of the township about 10 minutes after the arrival of the chief minister by a helicopter. Mr Yousuf was attending a briefing on security arrangements when the rockets exploded.
“No rocket hit the Kohlu township,” a senior police officer told Dawn on telephone from Kohlu and said that rocket attacks had become a routine matter in the remote district headquarters.
He said that the rockets landed in open places without causing any damage to life or property.
FC personnel deployed at checkpoints in the area opened fire on positions of the assailants who, he said, escaped.
Security arrangements were beefed up and additional personnel of the Frontier Corps and other law-enforcement agencies were deployed in and around the township.
Earlier in the morning, two bomb explosions were reported from township. The first damaged windowpanes of a clinic and some nearby structures. The other explosion, near a mosque, did not cause any damage or casualty.
In another incident, three rockets fired at an FC checkpoint landed in open places.
