Five hurt in Pasni blast

Published May 22, 2009

QUETTA, May 21 Five people were injured when a bomb exploded in a hair-cutting saloon in the coastal town of Pasni on Thursday night.

Police said that some people who had come for a hair cut left a small bag in the saloon.

“The bag contained a home-made bomb which exploded,” a senior police official told Dawn from Pasni. The shop was destroyed.

The injured were taken to the civil hospital. All of them are from Naushahro Feroze district in Sindh.

GRENADE ATTACK A man was injured when some men on a motorbike hurled a grenade at a clinic in Dera Bugti town.The man was taken to the Dera Bugti civil hospital.

THREE KILLED Three people were killed in an exchange of fire, following an attack by a group of Bugti tribesmen on a house in Mir Hasan village near Dera Murad Jamali.

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