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Constable killed in Mastung grenade attack

By Abdul Wahid Shahwani 2016-12-23
KHUZDA R: A police constable was killed and another injured late on Thursday when a checkpost came under a grenade attack in Mastung, some 50km of f Quetta, police said.

Two unidentified men on a motorbike hurled the grenade into the police checkpost near the Bakra Mandi area of Mastung and fled. The grenade went off, hitting the personnel.

`As result of the explosion one constableKHUZDA R: A police constable was killed and another injured late on Thursday when a checkpost came under a grenade attack in Mastung, some 50km of f Quetta, police said.

Two unidentified men on a motorbike hurled the grenade into the police checkpost near the Bakra Mandi area of Mastung and fled. The grenade went off, hitting the personnel.

`As result of the explosion one constablewas killed and another sustained serious injuries,` they said.

Law enforcement agencies personnel shifted the deceased and the injured to Mastung Civil Hospital.

`Constable Abdul Mutlib died on the spot while Shahnwaz was wounded. He is being treated in the hospital,` doctors at the facility said.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Police registered an FIR against unidendhed attackers and started investigation.