Five Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers and one officer were killed after their vehicle was targeted with an improvised explosive device (IED) near the Pakistan-Iran border at Kallag in Tigran area of Kech District in Balochistan on May 8, reports Dawn. In a tweet, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the security personnel were returning from patrolling in Buleda — 14 kilometres from the Pakistan-Iran border — to "check possible routes used by terrorists in the mountainous terrain of Makran". As they were returning, their vehicle was targeted with a remote controlled IED, it added. The dead were identified as Major Nadeem Abbas, Naik Jamshed, Lance Naik Khizar Hayat, Lance Naik Taimor, Sepoy Nadeem and Sepoy Sajid. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed the responsibility of the attack. "The Pakistani military has advanced operations in Tigran and other areas of Turbat over the past several days, targeting Baloch civilians, including harassing women and children" said BLA release.