Grenade Attack in Hub Injures Five, Including Three Policemen

The Baloch Hal News

QUETTA: At least five people, including three policemen were wounded in a hand grenade attack in Hub, industrial town of Balochistan, on Saturday night.

According to reports reaching here, a police mobile was passing from Sirat chowk of the city when unidentified armed men lobbed a hand grenade on it. Grenade exploded with a huge blast wounding three policemen and two passersby besides, scattering windowpanes of nearby buildings. The assailants escaped from the site after the attack.

Police and other law enforcement agencies rushed to the site soon after the blast and moved the injured to nearby hospital for treatment where injured policemen were identified as Sarwar, Shahid and Hameed.

No group has claimed responsibility for the grenade attack so far.

Police have registered a case against unidentified people and started a search to arrest the accused persons.