KHUZDAR: Five members of a family, including women and children, were critically injured in a grenade attack on the house of a tribal elder in Hub town on Tuesday night.

The police said unidentified motorcyclists hurled the hand grenade at the house of tribal elder Salahuddin Zehri in the industrial town of Hub.

The injured women and children were rushed to Jam Ghulam Qadir hospital and later shifted to Karachi for treatment.

Mr Zehri was not home when his house was attacked.

Published in Dawn, October 5th, 2022

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