QUETTA, Jan 3: Two security personnel and two civilian were killed and 15 others injured, four of them FC men, in a bomb explosion and grenade attack in Uch and Mastung towns of Balochistan on Saturday.

According to official sources, the first incident took place in the Uch gas field area of Dera Bugti in which militants blew up a vehicle of Frontier Corps that was on patrol for protection of gas installations.

Two FC men were killed and four others received serious injuries.

FC troops deployed in the area took the injured to the PPL hospital in Sui.

The FC vehicle was destroyed in the blast.

Two people were killed and 11 others were injured in Mastung, some 59km south of the provincial capital.A man hurled a hand-grenade on a vehicle of Frontier Corps at Sultan Shaheed Chowk.

The FC vehicle escaped the attack and the grenade exploded in the main chowk, killing a man and injuring 12 others.

“We have received a body and 12 injured,” Medical Officer of the Mastung Civil Hospital, Dr Abullah Jan, said.

DPO Arshad Malik said that all the victims brought to the hospital were civilians.

He identified the deceased as Haji Ibrahim, an Afghan National.

Sources said the bomb was attacked to a bicycle that was parked in the chowk.

However, eyewitness said that it was a hand-grenade attack.

The condition of three injured people was said to be serious who were shifted to the Bolan Medical complex hospital in Quetta. One of them later died in the hospital.