According to police, party workers and supporters of BAP candidate Amanullah Notezai were sitting in the election office in Killi Khuda-i-Rahim when unidentified men riding a motorcycle attacked the election office with a hand grenade. The grenade exploded inside the office, injuring 30 party workers and supporters of Notezai.
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Security forces rushed to the scene and moved the injured to the district hospital.
“We've shifted five of the seriously injured to Quetta for treatment,” a senior police officer said.
The election office was in a state of disrepair from the grenade attack.
Security forces cordoned off the area and have now launched a search operation to find those involved in this regard with no one having come forward to claim responsibility for the attack so far.
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