Islamabad: Unidentified gunmen yesterday fired a grenade on the home of a local tribal leader in Quetta, Balochistan, southwest Pakistan.
Pakistani police said yesterday that the incident occurred in Kharotabad area of the provincial capital when unidentified gunmen fired a grenade at the house of tribal leader Inayatollah Khalaji.
Police said the gunmen also opened fire on the house after the launch of the bomb, and added that no one was injured in the attack. In Peshawar, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in northwest Pakistan, police defused a roadside bomb planted near Carkhano market of Hayatabad.
Hayatabad police said that the bomb was planted outside the Alhaj market. The bomb disposal squad defused the paint can bomb placed at the roadside outside the market. Police said the bomb weighed one to one and a half kilogram.
Agencies
