Four employees of the Oil and Gas Development Corporation (OGDC) were killed and three others injured in a bombing near Dera Allahyar of Jaffarabad district on Thursday.
A caravan carrying OGDC employees, who were on a vacation to visit their families to other provinces, was on its way to Jacobabad escorted by the Balochistan Frontier Corps when a bomb fixed to a motorbike parked on the roadside exploded, killing two people on the spot and injuring five others.
Two of the injured succumbed to their injuries at the hospital. The Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack.
The deceased were identified as Amjad Ali, Shafiqeur Rahman, Muhammad Nawaz and Khuda Bakhsh Lashari.
Acting Jaffarabad District Police Officer Tariq Sabir told Pakistan Today that none of the FC personnel was killed or injured.
He said it was a remote-controlled bomb attack and the target was OGDC employees and security forces.
Meanwhile, Sarbaz Baloch, the spokesman of the banned Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that six OGDC employees had been killed in the attack.
Separately, a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a vehicle of a military contractor in Kotkai village of South Waziristan, AFP quoted security officials as saying.
4 OGDC workers killed in Jaffarabad bombing
