Pakistan: Quetta rocket attacks leave 7 injured (VIDEO)
Onlookers gather at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on January 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, police said.
Rocket attacks hit the Pakistani city of Quetta late Sunday, leaving at least seven people injured, among them a woman and several children, according to Pakistan's Express Tribune.
Quetta is the capital of Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan. The United Baloch Army has taken responsibility for the strikes, said the Tribune.
Local police said one rocket struck a police unit, wounding a police offer's wife and two daughters, as well as a person passing by, according to the Tribune.
Another rocket exploded an electric pole on a main road and electric pole, police said, cutting off power in the area, reported The News International.
Watch a Reuters video on the violence here:
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