Rockets fired at factory

Published May 17, 2008

QUETTA, May 16: Several rockets were fired on a cement factory in the industrial town of Hub on Friday night and militants attacked a security checkpost in the Kahan area of Kohlu.

Police said the rockets fired by militants exploded near the factory in the Sakran area of Hub.

DSP Abdullah Afridi told Dawn that no one was injured in the attack. Also on Friday, an explosion was reported from the Mastung township, some 50km away from Quetta.

A spokesman for the Baloch Liberation Army, Beebargh Baloch, has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Kahan checkpost.

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