QUETTA, May 27: Over 30 rockets were fired in various parts of Balochistan on Saturday, killing one woman and injuring three other people in the capital.

Five rockets were fired in Quetta from the western bypass area.

Sources said that the first rocket landed at China Chowk on the Ordinance Road at about 10pm.

Soon after that one rocket hit the house of Rahim Nawaz near Robert Market area, killing his wife and injuring three other people. A portion of the house caught fire after the explosion.

Two rockets landed in Shahbaz Park area. The fifth rocket exploded near a mosque in Zehriabad area, damaging its wall.

A caller claming to be a spokesman for a banned organisation and identifying himself as Merak Baloch said his party had carried out the rocket attacks in the city.

He told reporters over satellite phone that rockets had been fired to protest against nuclear tests conducted in the province by the government on May 28, 1998.

KOHLU/DERA BUGTI: Tribesmen fired 26 rockets at checkposts in Dera Bugti and Kohlu.