Two men were killed and another two injured in a hand grenade attack on a drug den in Mastung district, some 35 kilometres south of Quetta on Thursday.
Unidentified men lobbed a hand grenade inside a room, the extension of a house which was used for drug den owned by Jumma Lahri in Pirangabad area on the main Quetta-Karachi highway and fled. Four men were injured in the attack, two of whom succumbed to their injuries on their way to hospital. Dr Nawaz Shah told Pakistan Today that two bodies were received by the hospital while two of the injured were being treated. Muhammad Munir, the Levy official of Control Room confirmed the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
Meanwhile, unidentified armed men killed the driver of an oil tanker carrying supplies and injured his son in Dhadar area of Bolan distict. An Afghanistan-bound oil tanker carrying NATO supplies coming from Karachi via Jacobabad was passing from Dhadar bypass when four armed men opened indiscriminate fire on it. As a result the driver and his son were injured. Later, the driver succumbed to injuries. The men also set the tanker on fire and fled.
Local police officer Iqbal Shah told reporters that the attackers were four in numbers and were armed, but one of them opened fire on the NATO vehicle.