Paramilitary convoy attacked in southwestern Pakistan, killing 14 | Malay Mail

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QUETTA, Oct 16 — A gun and rocket attack targeting a Pakistani paramilitary escort yesterday killed seven soldiers and seven private security guards in southwestern Pakistan, officials said. The security detail was escorting a convoy of the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) on a...

A passenger train derailed during a bomb attack in Balochistan province, October 21, 2013. In the latest assault in the province, 14 from paramilitary security detail were killed October 15, 2020. — Reuters pic

The Pakistani military's public relations wing said the OGDCL personnel managed to escape the attack safely, but 14 security men had been killed in the incident. An umbrella organisation of Baloch militant groups claimed responsibility for the attack in a social media post, but the veracity of the account could not be independently verified by Reuters.Six soldiers, including one officer, were killed in a separate attack in the former tribal areas in the northwest of the country late Wednesday.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

 

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