Four people were injured on Monday when unidentified assailants on a motorcycle lobbed a hand grenade at the outlet of a cellular phone company in North Nazimabad.
Police said that two masked men riding a 125-CC motorcycle threw a locally-made hand grenade outside the franchise of a cellular company at the Hyderi Market in the morning and escaped.
The blast wounded two security guards deputed outside the franchise, identified as Younis and Zafar, and two others. They were rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
Following the attack, the Bomb Disposal Squad and law enforcement agencies personnel cordoned off the area. The explosion also partially damaged the franchise and some nearby shops.
The investigators collected evidence from the site of the blast and also took the CCTV footage into custody.
ANP ACTIVIST MURDERED: An activist of the Awami National Party (ANP) was gunned down on Monday in Pak Colony.
The Pak Colony police said two men on a motorcycle intercepted ANP activist Sultan Khan near Bara Board and shot him, killing him on the spot.
Tension prevailed in the Pak Colony area following the murder and the roads became deserted. In the same area, four people were shot and wounded. They included Hasnain, Ishaq, Akhtar and Zulfikar. They were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.
Separately, the body of a boy with severe torture marks was found in a nullah in Zaman Town. The identity of the victim could not be ascertained till the filing of this report.
