QUETTA: Five Baloch youths and three personnel of paramilitary forces were killed, while another nine were injured in separate incidents of violence in Balochistan’s Turbat and Kalat districts on Wednesday.
In the first incident in Turbat, the Frontier Corps lay siege to the house of Mir Ayub Gitchki, a central leader of the Balochistan National Party, after receiving a tip-off that wanted commander of Baloch Liberation Front, Mir Abbass Jan Gitchki, was in the house.
The raiding FC party was met with armed resistance from the occupants of the house, who included two sons of the BNP leader. The duel lasted nine hours. As a result, five Baloch youths and two FC personnel were killed, while two personnel were injured.
The Baloch youths were identified as Mohammad Zubair, Murad Jan, Hamid, Hasil Khan and Hammal. The names of all security force officials could not be ascertained. In a separate incident, an FC soldier was killed and seven others were injured in a remote-controlled bomb explosion in the outskirts of Kalat.
The FC men were on a routine patrol on the main Quetta-Karachi highway when a bomb fitted to a parked bicycle was detonated. As a result, eight personnel were injured, one of whom succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.
