QUETTA, July 31: Two grenades were hurled near a police station here on Tuesday.

Police told Dawn that assailants on a motorbike hurled two grenades when personnel inside Sariab police station were waiting for Iftar.

“The two grenades fired from a special gun damaged the wall along the main gate of the police station,” a police official said, adding that the policemen inside the building remained unhurt.

Police personnel retaliated to the attack, but the attackers managed to escape.

Official sources said the police launched an operation in different areas to track down the assailants.

The police said the attack was carried out apparently by a banned organisation. The Sariab police have registered a case and started investigation.

The provincial home department has ordered the authorities concerned to beef up security around sensitive places, including mosques, police stations and government installations.

Heavy contingents of law-enforcement agencies, including Frontier Corps, police and Balochistan Constabulary, have continued patrolling important arteries of the city.

Two police personnel, who were on duty outside a mosque, had been shot dead in the city two days ago.

Four injured: Four people, including a boy, were injured in two separate explosions in Panjgur and Dalbandin areas of Balochistan on Tuesday. According to police, unidentified terrorists lobbed a hand grenade inside a house in Panjgur town. The three people who were injured in the explosion were Abdul Ghani, Mukhtar Ahmed and Shamsuddin.

The attackers fled from the scene after the explosion.

Police reached the blast site and took the injured to a nearby hospital. In another incident, a boy was injured in a blast in Dalbandin town of the Chagai district.

Police said the 11-year-old boy was playing with a toy-like object in Killi Khuda-i-Rahim area which exploded and injured him. He was taken to a hospital.