A police officer was killed and eight
other
people,
including
an
MQM
candidate
and
two
police
personnel,
were
injured
in
different
attacks
on
February
17-night,
Dawn reported. According to police sources, the MQM candidate for
NA-259,
Abdul
Ghani
Kasi,
was
sitting
in
his
election
office
when
unidentified
people
riding
a
motorbike
hurled
a
hand-grenade
which
exploded
in
the
office.
“The
candidate
and
three
MQM
workers
received
serious
injuries,”
said
Deputy
Inspector
General
of
Police
Rehmatullah
Niazi.
Meanwhile, four persons, including
two
police
officers,
were
injured
in
Killi
Qambrani,
in
the
outskirts
of
provincial
capital
Quetta, when some people attacked
the
polling
station
with
a
hand-grenade.
Some
people
lobbed
a
hand-grenade
on
the
roof
of
a
government
school
in
Killi
Ismail
housing
a
polling
station.
Another
blast
was
reported
from
the
Sariab
area
while
two
other
polling
stations
and
the
office
of
a
union
council
were
bombed
in
Mashkey.
A
bomb
exploded
near
the
Turbat Model High School and explosions were also
reported
from
the
Sado-Jhakrani
area
of
Jaffarabad,
Khuzdar,
Mach,
Kalat,
Tump,
Awaran
and
Killi
Jamaldini
of
Noshki
in
government
buildings
housing
polling
stations.
However,
no
casualty
was
reported
in
these
blasts. |
