QUETTA, Aug 12: Nine people, including police and Levies personnel, were injured in two powerful bomb blasts and hand-grenade attacks in Quetta, Sui and the industrial town of Hub on Sunday night.

Separately, a rocket, apparently aimed at a checkpost of the Frontier Corps in Bolan area, exploded in the nearby open area.

Power supply to Hub and some other areas of the Lasbela district was suspended when a pylon was blown up in the blasts.

Traffic was disrupted on the RCD highway as the pylon fell on the main road linking Karachi with Quetta.

Police sources said unknown people had planted the two devices under the pylon feeding Hub and other areas of district Lasbela. The bombs exploded at around 9pm at brief interval, leaving four people injured. The scene of the explosions was about 100 metres from the Hub police station. Police removed the injured to the Jam Ghulam Qadir hospital. Later, three of the wounded were shifted to Karachi.

The injured were identified as Abdul Sattar, Khair Gul, Imam Bakhsh and Mohammad Hashim.

In Quetta, unidentified people riding a motorbike hurled a hand-grenade on policemen on the Brewery Road. The grenade exploded with a big bang, wounding traffic sub-inspector Mohammad Afzal, head constable Mohammad Azmat and a passerby, Abdul Salam.

Another hand-grenade attack was reported in Sui area.

Unidentified men attacked the house of a Levies Force official with a grenade. Risaldar

Rasool Bakhsh and his wife were injured.