QUETTA: Three grenade attacks on national flag sellers took place in the city during the last 48 hours, ending on Tuesday night, killing one person and injuring five others.

Police said that unidentified armed men hurled a grenade at a pushcart selling the national flags in the Sirki Road area on Tuesday which exploded at the roadside.

However, no loss of human life was reported in the explosion which smashed windowpanes of shops and buildings.

However, five people were injured in a similar grenade attack at a small shop where the national flags were hoisted in the Eastern Bypass area on Tuesday night. The motorcyclists escaped after lobbing grenades.

Police shifted the injured to the civil hospital where one of them died. He was identified as Amanullah, 27.

Yet another person was injured in the third grenade attack in the Sariab Road area when motorcyclists targeted a pushcart selling the national flags.

Published in Dawn, August 11th, 2021