At least eight people, including two security personnel, were injured in an explosion in Balochistan’s Turbat city on Wednesday, said police.
Miscreants on a motorcycle lobbed a hand grenade at Buleda Staff in Turbat city, police said. The target of the blast appeared to be the security personnel deployed there, according to media reports.
The injured were rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital in Turbat where a state of emergency was imposed to provide the treatment expediently. Police said the assailants managed to escape unhurt from the spot.
A contingent of police and personnel of frontier corps reached the area as investigation into the incident went underway. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.
Balochistan has been hit heavily with violence targeting security personnel this year. In January, nine individuals, including eight police staff and a civilian, died in a gun-and-suicide attack on the office of the deputy inspector general of police in Balochistan’s Loralai district. A few days later, two blasts on the same day in the province left 12 people injured, including three Levies personnel and a member of the Frontier Corps. Later that month, an alleged suicide bomber was killed in Quetta’s Mecongi road area when he attempted to gain entry into Imambargah Nasirul Aza. Then, in May, four policemen were martyred when an improvised explosive device (IED) blast ripped through a market in Quetta’s Satellite Town.