QUETTA: Four people, including two policemen, were injured in two hand grenade attacks on police vehicles on Tuesday.

Officials said unknown miscreants riding motorcycles hurled a grenade at a patrolling police vehicle in the Sariab Road area. However, it missed the target and exploded away from the vehicle.

Police personnel travelling in the vehicle remained safe, but two passers-by, identified as Niazullah and Karim Nawaz, were injured in the grenade attack and shifted to Civil Hospital.

The second hand grenade attack took place in the Hazar Ganji area, a locality on the outskirts of the provincial capital, an hour after the first attack in which motorcyclists threw hand grenades at a police vehicle which exploded a few yards away from it. As a result of the explosion, two policemen were injured.

Police and FC personnel rushed to the site and shifted the injured to Civil Hospital.

The injured policemen were identified as constables Jahanzeb and Mumtaz Hussain.

“A search operation has been launched in the area to arrest the elements involved in both grenade attacks,” a senior police officer said.

Published in Dawn, September 13th, 2023