File photo of Frontier Corps personnel. PHOTO: ONLINE
QUETTA: Three Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed and six others wounded in a roadside blast in Sorab area of Kalat district on Saturday.
Kalat district is located about 245 kilometers off Quetta.
Spokesperson FC Khan Wasay told The Express Tribune an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was planted along RCD Highway in Sorab.
“FC convoy was going to Panjgur from Kalat district when it was attacked with a roadside IED,” he said, adding that six personnel sustained splinter wounds. One of the four vehicles of the FC was also damaged in the blast.
The dead bodies and injured were shifted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Quetta.
According to security officials, around six to eight kilogrammes of explosive material were used in the blast.
“The target was FC convoy,” a senior police officer of Kalat Nazir Kurd stated.
Rescue workers, the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) and more troops reached the scene soon after the incident and the area was cordoned off.
In a separate incident, Frontier Corps (FC) claimed to have killed ten suspects in Sui area of Bugti Tribal Territory after an exchange of fire during a search operation this morning.
Acting on a tip-off, FC mounted a search operation in Darinjan Nalla and Rustam Bazar areas.
“There was a heavy exchange of fire between miscreants and FC. At least ten miscreants were killed,” Wasay confirmed.
“Security forces recovered Improvised Explosive Devices and arms from the houses in Darinjan Nalla during the search operation,” he added.
According to the spokesperson, the suspects were involved in blowing up gas pipelines and carrying out attacks on security forces in Bugti Tribal Territory. However, the identity of the deceased could not be determined until this report was filed.
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@Akhtar Baloch: Good job for killing Hindus invaders, Pakistan salutes FC. Wake up Dravidian, instead of showing fake love for Islam and the fear of change.Your brave Baloch Dravidian brothers are fighting for survival,while you are faking love for a failed system?.Dravidians are smart people,they always stand with the winning side.Many thought Pakistan would win, but it dint.So its only inevitable that Baloch become Indian 30th or 32nd state or union territory and join with other Dravidian tribes, it wont take India much time to set up colonies of trucks and manufacturing equipment, temples, universities, Gold Bazars, Clubs, Bars, Spicy food, tourists from all parts of India after airport landing permits are given, Gold, spices etc for the development of Balochistan.The rest, of Pakistan should be walled out.
Where are the fake desi liberals? Why not there is no demand to carpet bomb the area? You know your silence does not go well what you are famous for i.e war mongers.
Who are the people of Frontier Corpus? Is the PAF not active there? No operations on the Iranian border to esrablish the line of control?
Rex Minor
@Antebellum: Of course not. The right thing for Pakistan is to capitulate and beg for talks and do the same in the future whenever some violent ideology rears its head and starts exploding bombs.
Too much strategic depth sucks you down.
What, no liberal demanding a full military op there? no air strikes? what, no takers?
RIP
Look at the Dravidian in the Center, the builder of the Indus valley.Now under occupation by Central Asians.BalochFreedom cause of the Dravidians will never die down.