KHUZDAR: Three people were injured in a hand-grenade attack at a shop in the Wadh bazaar area of Khuzdar district on Thursday.

Levies Force officials said two unidentified people on a motorcycle hurled the grenade inside the shop and escaped.

Levies Force personnel rushed to the scene of the attack and shifted the inj­ured to the district hospital Khuzdar after initial treatment at the Wadh hospital.

“It is a targeted terrorist attack,” Assistant Commissioner Rehmat Murad Dashti said.

The injured were identified as Peer Jan, Sheikh Shahid and Yahya Khan.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack. The Levies Force is investigating the incident.

Published in Dawn, December 24th, 2021

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