KARACHI, Apr 28: Five labourers from Pakistan’s Punjab sustained injuries in a grenade attack in the restive Balochistan province, police said on Tuesday.
The incident occurred on Monday night in Chagai district of the province when unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants targeted a building housing labourers.
A senior police official said that masked men on two motorcycles threw at least two grenades at a house where labourers were living.
“Five of them were injured in the grenade attack,” Station House Officer (SHO) Faiz Baksh Malli said.
“The injured are all labourers from Punjab who were working on a project on a daily wage and have been moved to the hospital,” he added.
Meanwhile, in the Chaman border area, security sources said there had been “unprovoked” firing from across the border, and they responded strongly to repulse the attack.
Following this, the security forces destroyed multiple Afghan Taliban posts in the Chaman sector on Tuesday, Dawn Newspaper reported, citing security sources.
Balochistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces are the worst affected due to firing and militancy. The attacks increased after the ceasefire with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ended in November 2022. (PTI)
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