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India-Pakistan
19 rockets fired at FC checkpoints
2006-06-10
QUETTA: Unidentified men fired 19 rockets on security forces' check posts in several districts on Friday, including Dera Bugti and Sui. Sources told Daily Times that rockets had also been fired on Frontier Corps (FC) check posts in Pir Koha, Sangsila, Kohlu and Wadh. However, the rockets did not cause any serious damage, they said. In a separate incident, a railway track was blown up in Snari, disrupting the railway service. No immediate repairs were reported. Security forces also claimed defusing two landmines under a nearby railway bridge.

In Mustung district, a powerful bomb exploded in front of the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited office, but no one was reportedly harmed. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), calling himself Azad Baloch, claimed to have killed four government officials in Kohlu on Friday. Talking to reporters via satellite phone, the man said that a bomb blast had killed the government officials and injured six others. However, the incident could not be confirmed through independent sources. Meanwhile, police have arrested 16 suspected militants from Sui and Hub. Lasbela District Police Officer Ghulam Haider Baloch told Daily Times that 10 men had been arrested in Sui for their suspected involvement in rocket attacks on military check posts, while six had been rounded up in Hub for the mu
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