ISLAMABAD, June 10: A senior government officer and his friend were injured on Saturday night when an explosive device was hurled into his house in Bhara Kahu, the police said.

Junaid Shah, a deputy director-general in the communications department, along with his friend Malik Shaukat Ali, a Pakistani origin British national, was taking tea in the courtyard when someone threw an explosive device resembling a hand grenade over the boundary wall.

As the device landed close to them, the two persons tried to get away from it but the device exploded with a big bang leaving both of them injured, a police officer leading the investigations told Dawn.

According to the police, injuries received by Junaid Shah and Shaukat Ali were caused by splinters.

Shortly after the explosion, bomb disposal experts and a police team reached the site and collected the evidence and remnants of the explosive device.

“The device cannot be declared a hand grenade until the bomb disposal experts’ report is received,” the police officer said.

Meanwhile, the two injured persons were shifted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) where the doctors described their condition as stable.