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Published 29 May, 2016 11:08am

Two people killed, six others injured in separate attacks of violence in Balochistan

QUETTA: Six people, including two women and a child, were injured in a hand grenade attack in Balochistan's Chaman area, a town near the Pak-Afghan border, on Sunday.

Police said miscreants lobbed a hand grenade at a house in Chaman Bazaar. The motive behind the attack is unknown.

The injured were rushed to Civil Hospital Chaman for treatment.

In a separate incident, two people, including a Levies man, were gunned down by unidentified men on motorcycles in Turbat.

Levies officials said unknown assailants opened fire at two people in the Zamran area and fled. Both victims sustained multiple bullet wounds and died on the spot. The bodies were rushed to a nearby hospital for postmortem.

Levies personnel reached the site of the attack and initiated an investigation into the incident. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

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