One Frontier Corps (FC) personnel killed and two others injured when the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) militants attacked the Security Forces (SFs) in Mand area of Kech District in Balochistan on June 26, reports The Balochistan Post. According to FC authorities, the soldiers of FC’s 61st wing were stationed in Mand area to protect the newly fenced Pak-Iran border. The dead soldiers were identified as Rizwan Ahmed, Shabir Ahmed and Hussain Baksh. BLF claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement. In a media statement, BLF ‘spokesperson’ Gohram Baloch said that the BLF fighters attacked the Pakistani forces stationed to guard the fencing of the Pak-Iran border in Mand. He said that the FC soldiers from the neighbouring checkpoint unsuccessfully tried to attack the BLF fighters. The machinery used in the border fencing was also heavily damaged in the attack.
Meanwhile, one FC personnel, identified as Sepoy Kifait Ullah, was killed when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), targeting a water bowser, exploded in Shapak area of Hoshab District on June 26, reports The Express Tribune. SFs have launched a sanitisation operation in the area to apprehend the perpetrators of attack, said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
Separately, unidentified armed persons abducted six labourers who were erecting a cellular tower in the Marwar area of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, on June 26, reports The Balochistan Post. According to the Levies, the tower and its machinery were completely destroyed. The assailants released three of the labourers unharmed, whereas the remaining three are still in their custody.