5 killed, three injured in SW Pakistan
Xinhua, December 29, 2015 Adjust font size:
At least five people including two soldiers and three militants were killed and three others injured in three separate incidents in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Tuesday, local media and officials said.
Spokesperson of the paramilitary troops Frontier Corps (FC) said that an FC soldier was killed with two others injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast near their vehicle in Mastung district of the province.
He said that the soldiers were on their way to provide water to check posts located at remote areas when their vehicle was targeted by the unknown militants.
In a separate incident, one soldier was killed and another injured when some unknown militants opened fire at them in Turbat area of the province.
Police said that some unknown gunmen opened fire at the FC personnel in Dasht area and fled the scene.
No group has claimed responsibility for any of the attacks yet.
In the third incident, three militants including the key commander of a banned outfit were killed when FC raided their compound in Turbat.
The FC spokesman said that the operation was launched on a tip off received about the presence of suspected militants in the area.
He said that the miscreants were involved in terrorism and kidnapping for ransom in the area.
The troops also confiscated a huge cache of weapons from the compound of the suspects. Enditem