QUETTA: Four people, two teenage boys among them, were killed and nine others injured in two grenade attacks here on Wednesday.

“A barber’s shop and a photo studio were targeted by the assailants,” police official Imran Qureshi said.

The United Baloch Front (UBF) claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Police said men on a motorcycle hurled a grenade at the barber’s shop in Killi Langovabad area on the busy Double Road.

The device exploded outside the shop, killing one man and injuring 10.

Soon after the blast, the area reverberated with gunshots.

Police and FC personnel took the victims to the civil hospital.

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“Two of the seriously injured who were in their teens died in hospital,” police said. The condition of the other injured was stable.

The barber’s and several other shops were damaged.

The dead were identified as Ghulam Shabbir, the shop-owner; Shahrukh Khan and Mohammad Sultan Zehri.

Shortly afterwards, a photographer’s shop on Sariab Road came under a similar attack. The owner, Mohammad Afzal, and his employee Mohammad Asif were injured.

Police took both to the hospital where Asif died.

Calling from an unspecified place, UBF spokesman Musa Surbaz told reporters that his organisation was behind the attacks.

Published in Dawn, October 2nd, 2014