Two victims or rocket firing expire

By Malik Siraj Akbar

QUETTA: Two injured victims of rocket firing in Quetta city, including a three-year old boy, breathed their last in Quetta on Friday after succumbing to fatal injuries following the rocket attacks on their homes on Wednesday and Thursday nights in different incidents, police confirmed.

Five rockets had been fired by unidentified persons on Quetta city on Wednesday and Thursday nights. One of the rockets landed on the house of Sher Ali, a local resident of Pashtunabad area in Quetta, which injured his wife and two sons. While Ali’s three-year old son Mohammad Usman died two days later at the Civil Hospital after succumbing to the injuries, the other son, Suleman Ahmed, lost his left leg for good, doctors said.

Sher Ali, the father of the young boy who lost his life, told the media that no one from the government had sympathized with him over this tragic event that ‘destroyed’ his family. He wept and said his little son had committed no crime to be killed and the other be left with serious injuries on his leg that will make him unable t walk throughout his life.

“I appeal to the government to bring to justice the cruel people who killed my little son,” he pleaded.

Another citizen also died on Friday after failing to recover the injuries caused in a similar rocket attack. A rocket fired by unknown attackers on Thursday night landed on the residence of one citizen identified as Mohammad Saeed in Muslim Town area of Brewery Road in the provincial capital. As a result Saeed and his wife received serious injuries. Saeed, 60, and his wife were immediately shifted to the Bolan Medical Complex (BMC) for instant medical help. However, Saeed died on Friday morning after failing to overcome the wounds inflicted on him because of the rocket attack.

Both the civilians who died in the rocket attacks were buried in their ancestral graveyards in the presence of friends and family friends and relatives. The relatives of the deceased demanded the arrest of the perpetrators of the rocket attacks. They also complained about the growing state of lawlessness in Quetta city which, they feared, could lead to the loss of more innocent people’s lives.