PAKISTAN: Grenade attack kills two children in southwestern Pakistan

Record ID: 357829

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Grenade attack kills two children in southwestern Pakistan
  • Date: 5th March 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) RAZIQ BUGTI, A SPOKESMAN FOR BALUCHISTAN PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT, SAYING: "The series of these horrific incidents is continuing in Baluchistan since long time. As you know, several blasts have occurred here in the past killing innocent people, but today's is a very sad incident that a grenade was hurled when the children were playing."
  • Embargoed: 20th March 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Pakistan
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVADOP2A2C1QGEK90FUFTQX8CC0G
  • Story Text: At least two children were killed and three injured in a grenade attack late in the evening on Friday (March 3) in Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistan's troubled south-western Baluchistan province, a government official said.
    An unidentified attacker threw the grenade towards the residential houses of telecom employees colony at Saryab road in the Quetta city. The device landed behind the residential quarters where children were playing, a government spokesman said.
    The victims were aged 11 to 13 years.
    "The series of these horrific incidents is continuing in Baluchistan since long time. As you know, several blasts have occurred here in the past killing innocent people, but today's is a very sad incident that a grenade was hurled when the children were playing," Raziq Bugti, a spokesman for Baluchistan provincial government told reporters.
    Baluchistan has been in the grip of a sporadic insurgency blamed on rebel groups.
    A bomb at a bus killed at least 13 people wounding 20, in a pass at Kolpur, about 60 km (38 miles) south of Baluchistan's capital and gunmen killed three Chinese workers and their driver in a drive-by shooting in Baluchistan last month.
    The bus bombing followed two passenger train derailments that killed three people and injured dozens.
    Violence escalated markedly in Baluchistan after rockets were fired during a visit by Musharraf to a Baluch town in December.
    The army subsequently cracked down on tribal militant groups believed to be behind the trouble. Baluch nationalists say more than two hundred people have been killed, though independent analysts caution that the estimates could be exaggerated.
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