Grenade hurled at Rangers check post in Karachi

Wall of the check post partially destroyed but no injuries reported

KARACHI: A check-post of the Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) was damaged after a home-made cracker exploded near it in the city's District Central on Sunday evening.

At around 7pm, the bomb exploded at the paramilitary force's checkpoint near Gujjar Nullah in Nazimabad. Though the blast damaged the post, no loss of life was reported. Following the incident, a large contingent of law enforcers, including the Rangers, police and the bomb disposal squad, reached the site, and cordoned off the area to collect evidence.

District Central SSP Muqaddas Haider said that the bomb was concealed in a plastic bottle and weighed around 300 grammes. Some motorcyclists threw it, he said, adding that a similar bottle bomb was used in the previous attack on the Rangers check post in Nazimabad. This suggests that the same group is behind the series of attacks on Rangers, he said.

Sindh home minister Sohail Anwar Siyal also directed DIG Shah to enhance spot-checking and patrolling, and also urged him to arrest the culprits behind the attack.

This is not the first time that suspects have targetted law enforcers conducting the Karachi operation.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th,  2016.