Multiple attacks in different parts of Quetta also left five people injured. -File Photo
QUETTA Two little girls were killed and their brother was injured in a grenade attack on their house here on Thursday.

According to police, the grenade was hurled at the house of Sarfaraz Dost Agha, a retired schoolteacher, in the Sariab Road area.

The grenade exploded in the courtyard, injuring the three children who were taken to the Civil Hospital where 10-year-old Rabia and her six-month-old sister Iqra who had suffered multiple wounds in the head died. Their six-year-old brother Jalil is admitted to the hospital.

ROCKET ATTACKS

Five people were injured, two of them seriously, in rocket attacks on three homes in different areas of the city.

Police reports said the first rocket hit a house in Shahbaz Town area, injuring two people and damaging the house and a vehicle.

Two rockets hit houses in Musa Colony and Braganza area. Three people were injured and the houses were damaged.

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