QUETTA, Feb 8: Four people were wounded when unidentified men hurled a grenade attack into a tyre shop in the Zarghoon road area on Wednesday evening, officials said.

“It was a grenade attack as a pin and splinters have been found on the explosion site,” DIG Operation Nazir Kurd said. The injured were taken to civil hospital by police.

Three of the injured were identified as Mohammad Essa, Tahir and Gul Mohammad.

Siberian winds: Siberian winds lashing the provincial capital and parts of northern and central Balochistan for three days brought temperature down to minus 13 degrees centigrade in some areas on Wednesday.

Exposed to the severe cold, many pipelines have burst, causing shortage of water in most localities.

In Quetta, roads and streets presented a deserted look. Most shops, markets and shopping plazas were closed early because there was no customer.

Kalat experienced the coldest night of the current winter on Tuesday when the minimum temperature fell to minus 13 degrees Celsius and the maximum stood at zero.

Roads in hilly areas of northern and central Balochistan were slippery because of continuous snowfall. A number of vehicles were involved in accidents in Khojak Pass linking Quetta with Afghanistan via Chaman.

Gas loadshedding compounded the misery of people in Quetta with prices of fuel-wood, kerosene and coal having increased manifold.

A number of demonstrations have been held in protest against loadshedding and low gas pressure.