DERA GHAZI KHAN, Aug 14: Dera Ghazi Khan district was rocked on Tuesday by two bomb blasts, one in a busy chowk in the city which left two people injured and the other left one person injured at Fort Munro in tribal area.
A blast on a motorbike rickshaw at Toolianwala Chowk in the morning left the driver and another man injured. The blast at Fort Munro in the afternoon left one man injured.
City police reached the blast site in the city late and an angry mob broke the windscreen of a police van .
A closed-circuit camera installed by district police at the chowk is allegedly inoperative.
Although District Coordination Officer Iram Bukhari, the Political Assistant for the tribal area, Naeem Bhatti, and other officials of the district government were present at Fort Munro, the security arrangements were not up to the mark for an unusual gathering of tourists at the hill resort on the occasion of the Independence Day despite a threat made by the banned Baloch Liberation Army allegedly through pamphlets found by local people a day earlier to resist celebration of the event.
As many as 24 bomb blasts have occurred in the district since 2005.
The Dera city police have registered two cases, one against unknown saboteurs and the other against three brothers -- Shahid, Kashif and Tariq -- on charges of hurling stones at a police van after the blast.
