QUETTA, Pakistan — Five daily-wage labourers from Punjab were injured when unidentified motorcyclists hurled a hand grenade at a house in Dalbandin, in Balochistan’s Chagai district, late Monday, April 27, police said Tuesday, April 28, 2026.
The assailants arrived on motorcycles and threw the grenade at the house, where it exploded in the backyard, damaging windowpanes at the targeted property and nearby homes; investigators had not established a motive and no group had claimed responsibility.
What police reported in the Dalbandin grenade attack
Dawn reported that security forces reached the scene shortly after the blast and shifted the injured workers to Prince Fahad Hospital. Police officials said the injured men were from Punjab and had been working as daily-wage labourers in the area.
Pakistan Today also reported that the blast shattered windowpanes in the house and nearby homes, adding that an investigation had been launched after the attack.
Security backdrop in Balochistan
The Dalbandin blast came amid wider violence in Balochistan. In a separate incident the same day, a police head constable was killed in Pishin after militants attacked a checkpost in the Huramzai area, according to police.
The broader security picture has remained tense. The Centre for Research and Security Studies said in its Annual Security Report 2025 that Pakistan recorded its most violent year in a decade, with Balochistan fatalities rising by nearly 22% from the previous year. The South Asia Terrorism Portal’s 2026 explosion tracker has also listed repeated grenade, IED and blast incidents across Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the opening months of the year.
Older attacks show continuity over time
The latest case follows earlier attacks involving labourers and residential quarters in Balochistan. In March, five labourers from Sindh were injured in a grenade attack in Pasni after assailants targeted a residential quarter. In April 2024, nine people from Punjab were killed near Noshki after gunmen checked passengers’ identity cards and abducted them from a bus.
A month later, Reuters reported that seven labourers were killed near Gwadar while sleeping in a house. The Associated Press later reported that seven workers from Punjab were killed in Panjgur when gunmen stormed a rented house.
Taken together, the earlier cases give the Dalbandin attack a wider backdrop: migrant and daily-wage workers have repeatedly been caught in violence in Balochistan, while police often initially report unidentified attackers and no immediate claim of responsibility.
Authorities have not released further details on the identities or condition of the injured labourers. Police said the investigation into the Dalbandin grenade attack was continuing.
