QUETTA: Security forces on Monday expanded their search for the perpetrators behind multiple attacks that killed six troops and wounded 17 civilians in Bluchistan previous day.
The top government official in the Baluchistan, Abdul Aziz Uqaili, said there a total of nine attacks in Quetta on Sunday. No civilians were killed in the attacks, he tweeted. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif condemned the violence in Baluchistan.
Earlier, the military in a statement said five soldiers, including an army captain, were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near a security forces’ vehicle during a clearance operation in Kahan, a remote area in Baluchistan bordering Afghanistan. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the bombing.
The sixth soldier was killed in a shootout with the Taliban in the Sambaza area of Zhob district, according to Azfar Mohesar, a senior police official. A militant was also killed in the shootout, he said.