WORLD NEWS | PAKISTAN: Soldiers and police killed in two armed attacks in Balochistan

Islamabad [Pakistan]Jan 29 (ANI): A soldier of the conscription unit and a policeman were killed in two armed attacks in the Bolan and Karat districts of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, while two policemen were also killed, Dawn newspaper reported. Injuried.

The two attacks took place in Balochistan province on Friday. Armed men opened fire on a conscript checkpoint in the Paranari area of ​​Bolan district, killing a soldier. According to the Dawn newspaper, the soldier was identified as Khalid Hussain Kurd.

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Police deployed at the checkpoint returned fire, leading to a fierce exchange of fire with the attackers. According to news reports, the armed men fled the area.

Levies Force personnel arrived on the scene after receiving information about the attack. Conscription troops took the body of a soldier killed in the attack to a nearby hospital. A search operation was launched in the area to locate the armed men.

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In another incident, armed gangsters on motorcycles opened fire on a police vehicle in the Kalat district of Balochistan province, injuring three police officers, Dawn newspaper reported. Police vehicles were patrolling the main road near the Mughalzai area of ​​Kara District at the time.

Citing police officials, Dawn said Constable Nazeer Ahmed Bangulzai was killed while being taken to Quetta for treatment. The two injured police officers were identified as Nazeer Ahmed Umrani and Constable Abdul Majid.

Meanwhile, members of the security forces thwarted an attempt to blow up a passenger train by defusing an improvised explosive device placed on the railroad tracks in the Dramurad Jumali area of ​​Pakistan’s Nasirabad district.

News reports, citing sources, said that unidentified assailants had planted an improvised explosive device on the railway tracks in the Jamali area of ​​Dera Murad in Nasirabad district. (Arnie)

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