Two
Security Force
(SF) personnel
were killed
in an Improvised
Explosive Device
(IED) blast
in Awaran District
in Balochistan
on May 28, reports Dawn.
Official sources
said that personnel
of the Frontier
Corps (FC) were
checking the
Jhaho area in
the district
to clear it
of landmines
when an IED
exploded near
an FC vehicle.
Following the
blast, armed
men opened fire,
they added.
“Two soldiers
of the Frontier
Corps lost their
lives and three
others were
seriously wounded
in the blast,”
a spokesman
for the FC said.
He also confirmed
firing after
the blast. The
sources said
that the FC
men were the
target of the
IED, which was
exploded by
a remote control.
Meanwhile,
bullet-riddled
bodies of two
more government
employees, who
had been abducted
along with their
three colleagues
two weeks back
from the Dashat
area of Kech
District, were
found in the
mountainous
Saijee area
on May 28, reports
Dawn.
Official sources
in Gwadar said
that the SFs
found the bodies
and shifted
them to a Turbat
hospital. The
victims were
identified as
Fida Ahmed and
Muhammad Ibrahim.
Hospital sources
said that they
were shot in
the head and
chest. Earlier,
South Asia
Terrorism Portal
(SATP) had reported
about the recovery
of the bodies
of three other
missing Government
officials in
Turbat District
on May 26.
Separately,
the FC claimed
on May 28, to
have killed
three suspected
militants, including
an alleged ‘commander’
of the Baloch
Republican Army
(BRA), and arrested
their two accomplices
during a search
operation in
Barkhan District,
reports Dawn.
A spokesman
for the FC said
that armed militants
opened fire
on SF personnel
when they were
searching an
area in Barkhan.
The FC men returned
fire. A heavy
exchange of
gunfire continued
for some hours
and when the
guns fell silent
three militants
were killed.
“Three militants
including a
commander of
the banned Baloch
Republican Army
have been killed,”
the FC spokesman
said, adding
that two suspected
militants were
also arrested
and arms and
ammunition was
also recovered.
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