Grenade blasts kill one, injure one in Sindh cities

Published October 29, 2013
At least a man was killed and another injured in a string of hand grenade/cracker blasts in Hyderabad and Dadu on Tuesday night. – File Photo
At least a man was killed and another injured in a string of hand grenade/cracker blasts in Hyderabad and Dadu on Tuesday night. – File Photo

KARACHI: At least a man was killed and another injured in a string of hand grenade/cracker blasts in two towns of Sindh province on Tuesday night, DawnNews reported.

A retired employee of Hyderabad local government was killed in a suspicious blast near a local restaurant near the city’s busy Market Chowk close to Civil Hospital.

An eye witness told Dawn.com that “something” was hurled near the Quetta Star Hotel from a Suzuki pickup, killing the man now identified as Tariq Lodhi.

Meanwhile, two more cracker/grenade blasts in Qasimabad and near Haider Chowk spread fear among the residents of the city. A person was injured in the latter.

In a separate incident, a motorcycle was destroyed after four hand grenade blasts in Dadu – another town of Sindh province of which Karachi is the capital.

Nature of the blasts was not ascertained, however, they can be linked to Wednesday’s strike, called by banned Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSSM) against Pakistan Protection Ordinance-2013.

– Ali Hassan contributed to reporting from Hyderabad

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