Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: A man was killed and another injured in a low intensity blast of an explosive device, initially believed to be a hand grenade, in the Qasimabad town of Hyderabad on Monday evening, a private TV channel reported.

The victim has been identified as Bachayo Bheel, around 40 years, who collected usable items from trash.

According to Hyderabad SSP Peer Muhammad Shah, a grenade exploded while Bheel was rummaging through the garbage near the Mehran shopping centre on main Qasimabad Road.

The road is a busy commercial street. A health centre and regional office of Sui Southern Gas Company are also located in the vicinity.

“It seems that due to our ongoing search operation some miscreant threw the grenade in the garbage,” the SSP said. A passer-by, Rajab Ali, who was riding a motorcycle, fell when the grenade exploded and sustained injuries.

Liaquat University Hospital confirmed receiving a body and injured from the incident site.

Sindh Inspector General of Police Allah Dino Khawaja has directed the Hyderabad SSP to submit an inquiry report. Although high and low intensity explosions have occurred in other parts of Hyderabad, this is the first incident in a commercial area such as Qasimabad.

On January 19 last year, 16 people were injured in an explosion in the same city of Sindh province. Unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle had hurled explosives from above Abdul Wahab Shah Jilani Flyover on the shops under the bridge and escaped.

Published in Daily Times, January 30^th 2018.