QUETTA: At least one person has been killed and two others wounded in separate incidents during the local bodies elections in Balochistan on Sunday.

An election monitoring officer said a man received bullet injuries in armed clash between two groups outside a polling station in Pidag, a suburban area of Chaghi.

The officer said the injured was identified as Muhammed Anwar and the incident took place in UC1, Ward No 7. He said later Anwar succumbed to his wounds.

The polling process resumed after remaining shut for one and a half hours of the firing incident, he said.

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On the other hand, a hand grenade attack took place on Municipal Committee Inter College polling station in Qalat, leaving two Levies personnel injured.

Levies sources said unidentified people threw the grenade and fled from the scene. They said the wounded were shifted to BHU Mangochar for medical treatment. Meanwhile, an assistant commissioner visited the site of the incident and review security arrangements.

An eye-witness said the grenade was thrown from outside the polling station.

Balochistan Minister for Forest and Wildlife Mir Ziaullah Langau said no life loss had happened as a result of the explosion and a wall was a little damaged.

On May 28, Balochistan government spokesperson Farah Azeem Shah had said that after 2013, local body elections would be held in 32 districts of the province.

Elections were being held in 49 municipal committees, 838 union councils and 5345 wards of the province, she said said.

The provincial government had released Rs 4.3 billion for holding elections under Balochistan Local Government Election Rules.

She had said this while addressing a press conference at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat along with Balochistan Local Government Secretary Dosin Jamaldini.

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