Balochistan unrest: Container torched, no casualties

Police also claim to have arrested seven suspects and recovered weapons.

QUETTA: Unknown armed men set ablaze a private trailer truck carrying a container near Hazar Ganji area on Monday. According to police, an Afghanistan-bound container carrying bicycles was on its way when armed men riding a motorbike intercepted it, set it on fire and fled. The container was damaged but no loss of life was reported. Meanwhile in the Dera Bugti district, Balochistan Frontier Corps recovered two missiles from Sui town on Monday. A spokesman for FC told APP that unidentified miscreants had planted these missiles to target public installations in the area. However, an FC team located and defused these missiles. Separately, police claimed to have arrested seven suspects and recovered weapons along with stolen motorbikes in Usta Muhammad area. SHO Manzoor Ahmad Jamali said the accused were being interrogated.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 8^th, 2014.