QUETTA: Militants on Tuesday hurled a hand-held bomb at the residence of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Zubaida Jalal in Turbat town of Balochistan, Levies sources said.

The Levies officials who preferred to remain unnamed told Dawn.com that militants lobbed a bomb inside the house of former federal minister Zubaida Jalat in Turbat bazar, adding that the blast damaged her residence, but no human loss was reported.

In a separate incident, two Frontier Corps (FC) vehicles were destroyed in a road side bomb in the Mastung town of Balochistan, police said.

Abdul Hayee Baloch, the District Police Officer (DPO), told Dawn.com that two vehicles were destroyed in the attack near Deputy Commissioner's office in Mastung. Baloch said there was no human loss.

In yet another incident, militants blew up a school in Gwadar. According to the police, the militants had planted a bomb near the school.

The school was designated as a polling station for the coming May 11 election.

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