QUETTA: Two separate hand grenade attacks in Mastung and Gwadar districts on Thursday injured 44 people, some of them seriously, police and hospital officials said.

Nobody has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks.

"Two men riding a motorbike threw a hand grenade at a busy boulevard, injuring 21 people, three of them seriously in Mastung," a senior local police official told AFP.

Another police official, Abdul Qudus, confirmed the incident.

Elsewhere in Gwadar district two motorcyclists hurled a hand grenade near a roadside hotel injuring 23 people, many of them labourers who were having after-dinner tea, local police official Imam Bukhsh told AFP.

He said one person sustained serious injuries and his condition was later reported critical.—AFP