At least five persons, including three policemen, were injured in a hand grenade attack on a police van near Spinni Road in Quetta on Thursday.
According to details, a hand grenade was hurled at a police vehicle at the Spinni Road, which resulted in injuring three policemen and two civilians; the police vehicle was badly damaged in the attack.
Police sources said the injured were shifted to Civil Hospital, Quetta for treatment. While security forces reached the spot after the attack and cordoned off the area and launched a search operation.
Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Kamal has condemned the attack and directed the authorities to find the culprits.
Whereas, later a pro-independent armed group, Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) calmed the responsibility for the attack.
Jeeyand Baloch, the spokesperson for the group said: “Baloch Liberation Army sarmachars (fighters) targeted a police van in a grenade attack on Spini Road in Quetta. At least three policemen were injured in the attack.”
“The BLA has repeatedly warned the Baloch-majority forces such as the police and Levies in Balochistan, to refrain from obstructing the Baloch independence movement at the behest of the occupier Pakistan and its army, but some black sheep in aforementioned institutions are involved in spying on sarmachars, raiding on innocent Baloch, arrests, etc. This attack is a warning to those forces; if their anti-national activities didn’t stop, the attacks will be intensified,” he further added.