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Teachers, student hurt in Quetta grenade attack

QUETTA: Two teachers and a student were injured on Saturday when terrorists hurled a hand grenade at a girls’ school in Quetta, police said.

Separately, 13 people were injured when in a grenade attack on a busy commercial area in the city. The assailants in the school attack lobbed the grenade at a junior school, senior police officer Khalid Manzoor said.

The grenade blew off the staff room’s roof and the shrapnel hit two female teachers and an eight-year-old student, he said.

“The teachers sustained head injuries but both are out of danger,” Manzoor said, adding that the student had minor injuries. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Grenade and bomb explosions and drive-by shootings are fairly frequent in Balochistan, which is gripped by an insurgency. The attacks have usually targeted school and university teachers, a majority of whom is of Punjabi ethnicity.

Hundreds of people have died since Baloch militants launched attacks against government employees and security personnel in 2004, demanding autonomy and a greater share of the profits from the region’s natural resources.

Meanwhile, APP reported that 13 people, including two children and a security force official, were injured when a hand grenade exploded at Meezan Chowk, a central commercial area in Quetta.

According to Quetta police, unidentified assailants hurled a hand grenade at a Frontier Corps checkpost near Mizan Chowk in the evening.

The area was crowded by customers at the time, 13 of which were injured. The injured people were rushed to Civil Hospital Quetta, where doctors said all except two were out of danger. afp/app

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