Six FC personnel martyred in Quetta blast
The blast took place near Margit Checkpost in Quetta.
QUETTA (Web Desk) – At least six Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel were martyred and one personnel injured in an explosion near Margit Checkpost in Quetta, Dunya News reported.
Security forces arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area while the injured persons were shifted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH).
According to security sources, the roadside bomb targeted vehicle of the security personnel in Margit area, around 30 kilometres (around 19 miles) east of the provincial capital Quetta, killing five FC men on the spot. Another security personnel succumbed to his injuries in the hospital.
IG FC Major Gen Sher Afgan stated that sacrifices of martyrs will not go waste. Frontier Constabulary (FC) will continue to serve until peace is restore across the province.
Thousands of paramilitary troops are deployed in troubled areas of the country to carry out security checks and to help police in maintaining law and order.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the latest attack.
Quetta is the capital of the restive Balochistan province, which is also home to a separatist insurgency that has been raging since 2004.
The incidents comes four days after a suicide bomber killed at least fifteen people including 13 policemen and injured 24 others near a polio vaccination centre in Quetta.
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The officers had been gathering outside the centre in Satellite Town area to accompany polio workers for the vaccination campaign in the city.
Pakistan has been battling an insurgency since 2004 after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan caused fighters to flee across the border, where they began to foment unrest.
Thousands of civilians and security personnel have died in attacks since that time but overall levels of extremist-linked violence have dropped dramatically, with 2015 on course for the fewest deaths since 2007 -- the year the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan umbrella group was formed.
