Three rockets fired in SW Pakistani city

Three rockets fired in SW Pakistani city

Islamabad, IRNA – Three rockets were fired in Pakistan southwestern city of Quetta late Saturday a day after a deadly car bomb attack killed 10 people in the city, police said.

 

No one was hurt in the rockets attack, police said. There was also no damage on the ground.
Rockets landed in different locations of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, police said.
Ambulances were immediately sent across the city and emergency declared in two main hospitals after panic gripped the area after blasts were heard.
Earlier in the morning police defused six live bombs in Quetta near the house targeted in the Friday’s car bomb attack.

 

The explosive-laden car exploded outside the house of the son of a former federal minister.
A banned nationalist extremist Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack.
Police said that rescue team found six bombs during a search operation in the building and experts of the bomb disposal squad were called who defused the devices.
Quetta has seen terror attacks over the past few days.
On Thursday unidentified gunmen shot dead a doctor who had carried out the autopsies of five foreigners, including two women, who were shot dead by security personnel near Quetta, capital of Balochistan on the pretext of being ‘terrorists’ in May this year.
No group claimed responsibility for Dr Shah’s murder.
Doctors in Balochistan are observing strike in government-run hospitals against the murder and the police have so far not succeeded to make any arrest

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