KHUZDAR: Fifteen people, including two security personnel, were injured on Tuesday in a grenade attack on a vehicle of the Frontier Corps in Surab town of Kalat division.

Police said that two suspects riding a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade at the FC vehicle parked in the city area of Surab and escaped from the scene.

“As result of the explosion, two FC soldiers and 13 civilians suffered injuries,” a senior police officer told Dawn, adding that the vehicle was badly damaged in the powerful blast that rocked the city of Surab.

Soon after the blast, police and personnel of Frontier Corps rushed to the site and cordoned off the entire area and took the injured to district hospital, Surab. The seriously injured victims were later referred to Civil Hospital, Quetta.

Security forces launched a search operation in suspec­ted places in Surab after the attack to trace the elements involved in the attack. No one immediately clai­med responsibility for the attack.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2020