QUETTA, April 1: At least four people, including a woman, were injured in a landmine explosion in Pat Feeder area and a hand grenade attack in the provincial capital on Saturday. Rocket attacks on Frontier Corps checkpoints in Dera Bugti were also reported.
According to official sources, three people where seriously injured in Pat Feeder area when their vehicle hit a landmine.
“The victims were on their way to their village,” a police official in Dera Murad Jamali said. The injured were sent to the Dera Murad Jamali Civil Hospital.
Unknown people hurled a hand grenade into the house of police constable Abdul Majeed in Sariab area, injuring a woman. The house was also damaged.
“A homemade grenade was used in the attack,” a police official said.
A bomb exploded on the third floor of Baldia Plaza near Meezan Chowk in the provincial capital in the night.
Police said the bomb had been planted near the office of the Pakistan Workers’ Party. The explosion smashed windowpanes of the office of Advocate Sohail Ahmed Rajput, provincial information secretary, Jamhoori Watan Party.
Tribesmen fired 18 rockets at FC checkpoints in Dera Bugti and Pather Nullah area of Pir Koh gas field.
