Five people, including two personnel each of Frontier Corps and Balochistan Constabulary, were killed and five others injured in three separate incidents of violence across Balochistan on Monday.
Per reports, a Frontier Corps party was moving from Mashkey to Quetta when armed men opened fire on it. As a result, two soldiers were killed and another was hurt. The deceased were identified as Saifullah and Shazad. Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani confirmed the incident and said two FC jawans had been killed in the attack. However, he rejected reports that army soldiers were among those killed in the attack. In another incident, an FC convoy was targeted with explosives fixed to a motorcycle on Sakran Road in Lasbela district. Four FC sepoys received injuries. An FC spokesman confirmed the incident and said the condition of all of the injured was out of danger. Meanwhile, a party of Balochistan Constabulary was passing along the Eastern Bypass area near the cattle market when unidentified armed men sprayed bullets on it. Resultantly, three BC personnel sustained serious wounds. The injured were being rushed to a hospital when two among them succumbed to injuries. The deceased were then shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta where they were identified as Abdul Haleem and Muhammad Arshid, while the injured was named Yar Muhammad, whose condition was also critical. Separately, a driver of a NATO supply container was killed in Sariab locality. Police said that the incident occurred in New Sariab police precincts when armed men opened indiscriminate fire on a container, killing the driver on the spot. He was identified as Muhammad Qasim.