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Rockets fired at Quetta DIG’s office

QUETTA: Rockets fired at the Quetta DIG’s office hit the houses of Hindu and Christian minorities near Spiny Road on Wednesday.

According to official sources, the two rockets were meant to hit the office of Balochistan DIG Shahid Durrani, who had survived an earlier assassination attempt on Tuesday.

One of the rockets landed in the Christian Colony, damaging the house of Haji Yar Mohammad on Spiny Road. The rocket damaged the boundary wall of the house and shattered the windowpanes of nearby houses. The second rocket, which was also fired at the same time, exploded in the house of Chaman Lal, a Hindu, after hitting the boundary wall of Almas Joseph’s house. Locals said the rockets had damaged several houses, but there were no casualties. Police and Frontier Corps (FC) officials rushed to the site and cordoned off the area. Police have launched an investigation. The attack, which is believed to have targeted the DIG office, took place a day after a remote control blast in the provincial capital. Although the DIG escaped unhurt, one civilian was killed and eight others injured. According to sources, the banned Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had accepted responsibility for the attack. staff report

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