Man killed in grenade attack

Published May 21, 2008

QUETTA, May 20: One man was killed and three others were injured in an attack in the industrial town of Hub on Tuesday night.

“Armed men on a motorcycle hurled a grenade on a truck supplying water to some factories,” said some sources. “One man on the truck was killed and three other people received injuries.”

The injured were taken to the Civil Hospital in Hub. “The condition of two of the injured people is rather serious,” hospital sources said.

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