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Militant attack on check post in Loralai kills four policemen
[DAWN] Militants attacked a police check post in Mekhtar area of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Loralai district on Thursday, killing four coppers including the station house officer (SHO) of Rara Sham cop shoppe. The holy warriors opened indiscriminate fire at the check post and also hurled a hand grenade, which resulted in the death of three police constables and SHO Tahir Shah, Levies officials told DawnNews. The check post was also damaged and a police mobile was destroyed during the attack, they added. Following the attack, additional contingents of security personnel reached the site and cordoned off the area. But the attackers managed to flee the scene of the crime and disappeared in the nearby mountains. Bodies of the slain police officials were shifted to a nearby hospital. The situation turned tense in the area following the attack. Levies officials said the numbers of attackers still remain unknown, while no krazed killer group has so far grabbed credit of the attack. This is the same area where at least seven Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed when holy warriors stormed a security check post in January this year. Security sources had said that around 40 holy warriors attacked the check post with rockets and gunfire killing seven FC personnel. Posted by: Fred 2015-03-27 |
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