Islamabad: Six women have been injured in acid attacks in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province in two days, according to local media reports Tuesday.
Masked men sprayed acid on four women Monday in a market in Quetta, capital of the province while unknown persons threw acid on two women in a shopping centre on Tuesday.
The injured women were under treatment in specialised burns treatment facilities, the reports said, without throwing light on possible motive of the attackers.
All assailants escaped and police said they were investigating the incidents, which occurred in the current holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Balochistan, with a largely tribal society, suffers from a long-running separatist insurgency being waged by ethnic Baloch militant groups.
Bus accident
At least 30 people were injured Tuesday when a bus fell into a ravine near Balakot in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police said.
Six of the wounded persons were said to be in critical condition.
Balakot is located in the provinces district of Mansehra, where a in June, five people including two soldiers were killed and 30 injured when a passenger bus fell into a ravine.
