Six members of an outlawed group were killed in an exchange of fire with paramilitary frontier corps in Dera Bugti district of restive Balochistan on Sunday.
Media reports said the FC personnel conducted a raid against the suspects after which eight people, children and women among them, were killed in an armed attack in Dera Bugti before dawn on Sunday.
The FC spokesman said that huge quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered “from the custody of the dead militants”.