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Five militants were killed in a search operation in the Mashkai tehsil of the restive Awaran district in Balochistan on Tuesday.
According to sources within the security forces, a search operation was carried out in the Nok Jo locality of Mashkai.
“Five militants of a banned organisation were killed in an exchange of gunfire,” The sources said that they had also confiscated weapons from the possession of the militants, who were involved in terrorist activities in the area.
Their bodies were moved to a nearby hospital, where they were identified as Akhtar Ali, Darwesh, Umer and Abdul Rehman.
A day earlier, 12 militants of banned organisations were arrested and four hideouts destroyed in search operations in Ziarat, Killa Saifullah and Barkhan districts of the province.
Seven militants were arrested from Sinjawi in Ziarat, three from Killa Saifullah and two from Bagawao in Barkhan.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 2nd, 2015.
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