Quetta rocket attacks leave four dead

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Quetta rocket attacks leave four dead​

QUETTA, March 23: Two policemen and two civilians were killed in three rocket attacks in the city on Wednesday.

The attacks left 18 people injured, five of them seriously.

In the first attack near the Sariab railway crossing, traffic sergeant Safdar Hussain, police constable Mohammad Sadiq and civilian Asmatullah were killed on the spot by splinters of the rocket, DIG Operations Hamid Shakeel told Dawn.

The police personnel, he said, were on the Pakistan Day security duty. Eighteen people injured in the attack were taken to the Civil Hospital where a man named Ziaul Haq died.

“The condition of five other people is serious and doctors are trying to save their lives,” the DIG said.

Sources said that two other rockets landed and exploded in a residential colony near the Chaman railway crossing and in Khaliqabad on Jan Mohammad road.

One rocket hit the bathroom of a house and the other the overhead water tank of another house, damaging parts of both houses.

No casualty was reported.

Security forces are trying to determine the place from where the rockets had been fired.

Meanwhile, three oil tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan were attacked and torched in an area near Sibi on Wednesday.

The oil tankers coming from Karachi were attacked by six men on motorbikes near Kambri bridge between Sibi and Dhadar. The gutted tankers disrupted traffic on the main highway, an official of Levies said.

There was no casualty because the drivers and other people in the tankers had jumped out immediately after the attack.