3 dead in grenade attacks on a store selling national flags

14/8/2024 11:58

        Suspected militants hurled hand grenades at a house and a store selling Pakistani national flags in the restive southwestern Baluchistan province on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding six others ahead of Pakistan's 77th independence day.
        
        The separatist Baluch Liberation Army group claimed responsibility for the attacks in the provincial capital of Quetta, days after the group asked shop owners not to sell the flags. It also warned people not to celebrate the holiday on Wednesday, marking the Aug. 14, 1947, date of Pakistan's independence from British colonial rule.
        
        Wasim Baig, a spokesperson at a government hospital, said the facility had received six injured people and three bodies following the attacks.
        
        Pakistan's army chief Gen. Asim Munir vowed to defeat militancy in a televised speech at an event that took place at a military academy in the country's northeast on the eve of Independence Day.