QUETTA: Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldiers were martyred in two terrorist incidents in Balochistan.
According to details FC patrolling team’s reconnaissance vehicle was struck by an IED when it was returning to a base camp in Pir Ghaib located in the area of Mach last night (Monday, 18th of May 2020), six soldiers (including a JCO and a civilian driver) embraced martyrdom.
FC soldiers who embraced shahadat were identified as Naib Subedar Ihsan Ullah Khan, Naik Zubair Khan, Naik Ijaz Ahmed, Naik Maula Bux, Naik Noor Muhammad. The civilian driver was identified as Abdul Jabbar. In another incident, Sepoy Imdad Ali was martyred during an exchange of fire with terrorists near Mand, in Kech district.
Earlier, six soldiers laid their lives for the motherland in Balochistan on 8th of May, 2020. According to details Major Nadeem Abbas Bhatti, resident of Hafizabad; Naik Jamshed, resident of Mianwali; Lance Naik Taimoor, resident of Taunsa Sharif; Lance Naik Khizer Hayat, resident of Attock; Sepoy Sajid, resident of Mardan; and Sepoy Nadeem, resident of Taunsa Sharif lost their lives as a result of a remote-controlled IED attack carried out near Pak-Iran border.
Army personnel were conducting routine patrolling in the area to check possible routes used by terrorists in mountainous and extremely treacherous terrain of Mekran. The reconnaissance vehicle was targeted as the FC South Balochistan troops were moving back to their base after assigned patrolling duty. President Dr. Arif Alvi while strongly condemning the attack on the vehicle of FC has offered condolences to the families of martyred soldiers. He maintained that the martyred’ sacrifices would never go in vain.
Last year on 16th of August, as a result of an explosion carried out by means of a remote controlled IED during Jumma prayers in a Madrassa (Seminary) situated in the Killi Qasim Kuchlak area, five people died and twenty others wounded.
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