According to the FC spokesperson, an FC convoy was on its way to Panjgur when a group of armed men opened fire.
Security personnel returned fire, killing at least six of them. Security forces also recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from their possession.
Local administrations of Panjgur and Turbat remained quiet about the incident, only confirming that five people were killed in the clash.
Baloch armed groups often target security forces in Balochistan. However, no one has claimed responsibility for the incident yet.
The six bodies were handed over to the Balochistan Levies and shifted to the Turbat district headquarters hospital for autopsy.
FC Inspector General Ubaidullah Khan in his statement praised the performance of FC personnel and said the culprits must not be spared. He added, however, that FC was present to help those ‘who wanted peace’.
The identities of the deceased could not be ascertained till the filing of this report.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 16th, 2011.
Correction: An earlier version of this article had incorrectly mentioned that six FC personnel had been killed. The correction has been made.
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The headline doesn't match the report. It is not FC personnel who were killed as the headlines indicates.
@Voice of people
These were "innocent people" who had nothing but a few hand grenades, a few AK-47's, a few land mines and a few RPG's. Very "innocent" indeed. Good work FC.
@Voice of Baloch: Right now there are many Pakistanis outside Balochistan sympathizing with Baloch people, but if you continue killing Frontier Corps personnels and non-baloch in Balochistan then no one will sympathize with Baloch people.
@Voice of Baloch: These so called "Innocent People" were carrying automatic weapons and rockets to hunt for gazelle, bullets for killing rockets for cooking. Good riddance of these terrorists.
They were innocent people from a same family which were attacked by FC and in retaliation they fired back and didn't even killed anyone. Shame on forces!