Unidentified armed men opened fire on a police van in Sohbat Pur district of Balochistan on Friday wounding at least six policemen.
A Station House Officer was also travelling in the mobile van which came under indiscriminate fire of the attackers. The SHO was critically wounded.
Earlier during the day, security forces claimed to have foiled a major bid of terrorism as they seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Zhob district on Friday.
Frontier Corps personnel, accompanied by intelligence officials, conducted a joint search operation and apprehended two militants from Gwal Ismail Zai area of Zhob district.
A security official said that they had also recovered five suicide jackets, 14 rocket launchers, 50 kilogrammes of explosives and other weapons from the possession of the arrested militants.
“The militants were trying to smuggle the weapons to Quetta for sabotaging the independence day celebrations,” he said.
Both the militants belonged to a banned militant outfit and were shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation, the official added.
