QUETTA, Nov 19: Militants fired at least five rockets at the Police Training College here before attacking its front gate with automatic weapons on Wednesday while a man was injured in a blast near the city’s main railway station.

A bridge on the Quetta-Karachi highway was damaged by a powerful blast near Khuzdar and a security official’s house was attacked with a hand-grenade in Hub.

A man identifying himself as Beebargh Baloch said the defunct Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) was behind the Quetta blast and the attack in Hub.

Sources said that one rocket had hit the police college’s playground while others landed in an open area, causing no damage.

They said that rockets were fired by men on mountains near the college, which is located in the suburban Sariab area. Police guards fired back on the militants.