QUETTA, Sept 28: At least 12 people were injured in two bomb explosions here on Sunday.

Both the blasts took place in crowded areas, triggering panic among people shopping for Eid.

Five people were injured in the first blast near a CD shop in Asif Centre, an underground market on Natha Singh Street. Two CD shops were destroyed and several shops were damaged.

Five minutes later, the other blast hit the crowded Daud Shopping Centre on Tola Ram Street and injured seven people.

According to police, a security guard saw the bomb and threw it on the roof where it exploded.

A banned organisation had warned shopkeepers of Asif Centre to stop the CD-video business. “Locally-made explosive devices were used in both the blasts,” according to DIG Operations Wazir Khan Nasar. He said security had been beefed up in the city. Personnel in plainclothes have been deployed at shopping centres and police are patrolling different areas round the clock.

Kalat Blast: The small town of Kalat was rocked on Sunday by a bomb blast in Hindu Mohalla.

According to police, a locally-made bomb placed near a shop in a shopping centre exploded, damaging windows and doors of some shops.

No casualty was reported.