At least one person was killed and seven others including two policemen injured when unidentified assailants hurled a hand grenade in Jacobabad.
Rescue workers shifted four seriously injured persons to medical facilities in Larkana.
Police have arrested a suspect who was captured and handed over by locals present at the crime scene.
Law enforcement agencies reached the spot and cordoned off the area in the Mola Mada Phattak locality of the town.
After visiting the injured in the hospital, SSP Jacobabad Sameer Noor Channa said law enforcement agencies have initiated an investigation. "The nature of the blast is being investigated," he said while talking to the media.
Confirming the death of a civilian, identified as Ghulam Mustafa Jakhrani, Channa confirmed that two policemen were also injured.
The Sindh government on May 24 imposed Section 144 across the province for at least 20 days in the wake of "rising terror incidents" in the province, especially Karachi.
The ban came amid a fresh wave of terrorism in Karachi claiming several lives over the months of April and May.
On May 18, a bomb blast at Bolton Market in the Khardar area of the city claimed one life and injured at least 11 people, including three cops.
On May 12, a vehicle of Coast Guards came under attack in Saddar resulting in the death of one person and injuries to several others.
These attacks followed a suicide bombing outside the University of Karachi that had killed four people, three Chinese teachers, and their driver. The responsibility for these blasts was claimed by Baloch and Sindhi nationalist outfits.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 26th, 2022.
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