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| 5 people, including 2 cops, injured in grenade attack in Quetta |
| 2023-08-10 |
Lots of possible miscreants in Quetta, so this could be War on Terror. [Dawn] Five people, including two coppers, were maimed on Wednesday in a hand grenade attack on Quetta’s Joint Road, hospital officials said.Quetta Civil Hospital spokesperson Dr Waseem Baig told Dawn.com that the injured, which included a woman and two police officials, were brought to the hospital. He said that the injured were being provided medical attention, adding that they were "out of danger". Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Operations Captain (retired) Zohaib Mohsin said that initially an exchange of fire had taken place between police and unknown miscreants, after which the latter hurled a hand grenade and fled from the scene. He visited the site of the incident and sought a briefing from the station house officer of the relevant cop shoppe. The SSP said that in light of Independence Day, security in the city was on "high alert". He said that police officials in plainclothes had also been deployed across the city for surveillance purposes. On Monday, at least seven people, including a newly elected Union Council chairman, were killed in a kaboom in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ’s Panjgur district. Mohammad Ishaq, the Balgatar UC chairman, was returning to his village along with six other people after attending a wedding when his vehicle was targeted by a roadside kaboom at Chakar Bazaar in the border area of Turbat and Panjgur districts. Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove confirmed to Dawn that Ishaq’s vehicle was targeted using a "powerful landmine". A senior police official said the vehicle was badly damaged and all seven people went titzup. |
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