Explosion leaves six FC soldiers injured

QUETTA: At least six Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were injured — two of them seriously — after a bomb detonated near the FC’s firing range along the western bypass of the provincial capital.

The outlawed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the blast, saying it targeted  a vehicle of the paramilitary force.

Officials said that terrorists had planted an explosive device on the kerb of the road linking the firing range with the western bypass.

“Six FC soldiers were injured in the blast,” FC officials said, adding that soon after the injured FC personnel were  ferried to the Bolan Medical College Hospital in Quetta.

“The device was detonated with a remote control device,” Quetta’s Capital City Officer Abdul Razzaq Cheema said.

According to him, the explosive device was planted near the FC picket.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 3^rd, 2017.