Six people were wounded in a grenade attack, while miscreants bombed a gas pipeline in Balochistan on Sunday as unrest continued over the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, police said. Unidentified attackers on a motorbike hurled a grenade at a crowd outside a shop in Quetta.
"Six people were brought to our hospital, they were hit by splinters," Raz Mohammad, a doctor at a state hospital, told AFP. "Their injuries were not serious."
The attack came hours after a rally in Quetta to protest the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti. Meanwhile, miscreants detonated a bomb that blew up a pipeline and disrupted gas supplies to thousands of homes in Mastung and Kalat districts, local police officer Hamid Shakil said.
The blast took place 35 kilometres south of Quetta, amid calls by opposition parties to stage demonstrations across Balochistan. Around 5,000 people staged the rally in Quetta amid tight security, police and witnesses said.
The participants of the rally were mostly youths from the Balochistan National Party waiving black banners and placards against the killing of Bugti and the army operation that had been targeting Bugtis in the area, they said.
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