Insurgents in an in a single day assault threw a grenade at folks sitting in entrance of a lodge within the restive southwest Pakistan and killed at the very least one particular person whereas wounding 10 extra, police and hospital officers mentioned Thursday.
The attack was the third in as many days in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, as folks celebrated the nation’s independence day.
The separatist Baluch Liberation Military (BLA) group claimed accountability for all of the assaults, together with the most recent one, which got here days after the group warned folks to not rejoice the vacation on Wednesday, marking the August 14, 1947, date of Pakistan’s independence from British colonial rule.
Arbab Kamran, a spokesperson at a hospital, mentioned the power acquired 10 wounded and one useless following the assault.
BLA and different small separatist teams have been behind a long-running insurgency for Baluchistan’s independence from the central authorities in Islamabad.
Pakistan says it has quelled the insurgency, but violence has continued alongside the nation’s southwest borders with Iran and Afghanistan.