Islamabad: Unidentified gunmen attacked a residence of a political leader with hand grenades in Pakistan’s Quetta region last night, police said.
Officials said that armed men riding on a motorcycle hurled two hand grenades at the house of Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the President of the Baluchistan National Party-Mengal.
“Two grenades exploded inside the house located in Railway Housing Society,” officials said, adding that several windowpanes of the house were smashed in the attack.
Mengal was not presented in the house at the time of the attack.
He was at his other house located in Sariab road area, police said. Sources said no one was injured.
The local administration stepped up security for Mengal and his family by deploying a heavy contingent of police and other security forces around his houses. Agencies
