QUETTA, Aug 31: The office of the Intelligence Bureau was attacked with a grenade in Panjgur town late on Friday night.

Sources said that unidentified people on a motorbike hurled a grenade at the IB office that exploded in backyard, damaging a portion of the building.

No casualty was reported in the attack.

A search operation was launched in the area to trace out the attackers.

The banned Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack.

BRA spokesman Sarbaz Baloch calling from an unidentified place said that a man was killed and two others were injured in the attack.

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