QUETTA, Nov 10: At least seven policemen an two newsmen were wounded, four of them seriously, as three bombs exploded in the Satellite Town area on Monday night.

The bombs went off one after another injuring a deputy superintendent of police, two sub-inspectors, an assistant sub-inspector and others.

The first bomb exploded in a garbage dump near the Helper’s High School.

Another explosion took place a few yards a way from the spot after the arrival of policemen and journalists, injuring nine people, who received splinters of the explosive device.

Newsmen Mohammad Ijaz Khan and Haji Ajmal Khan, Crime Investigation Department DSP Khalid Mahmood Gramkani, sub-inspectors Akram Zaidi and Mohibullah Dawi, ASI Nasir Ali and Faris Mahmood, Tabarak Shah, Abdul Hameed and an unknown constable were injured.

The injured were taken to the Civil Hospital.

Later, another bomb went off near the same spot but no one was injured.

Bomb disposal squad officials said all the bombs were time devices of low intensity.

Chief Minister Jam Mir Mohammad Yousuf, Chief Secretary Maj Mohammad Ashraf and other officials visited the Civil Hospital to inquire about the injured people.

Talking to newsmen, the chief minister censured the police for not adopting precautionary measures following the first blast.

“We cannot rule out the involvement of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing and other foreign agencies in the bomb blasts and rocket attacks in Quetta,” Jam Yousuf said.

Replying to a question, the chief minister said the attacks had no links with the Gwadar port issue.