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| 14 FC men slain in Turbat |
| 2012-01-13 |
| [Dawn] At least 14 personnel of the Frontier Corps died in an ambush by gunnies in the Nawano area of Turbat district late on Wednesday night. I know Turbat is a location, but I always think of the tasty fish when I see the name. The banned Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) grabbed credit for the attack. Official sources said the FC men were on duty in two vehicles on a road in the Nawano area, some 200km southwest of Turbat town, when the gunnies, hiding in nearby mountains, attacked them from three sides with rockets and automatic weapons. The rockets hit the vehicles, resulting in the death of 12 FC soldiers and two non-commissioned officers. The gunnies fired around a dozen rockets. Sources said that the gunnies used heavy automatic weapons. "They fired rockets from the mountains, then came down and fired bullets from a very close range on the FC personnel," the sources said. The gunnies beat feet after the attack. The sources said that after receiving information about the attack, a heavy contingent of security forces rushed to the site and took the bodies to Turbat. A BLF front man, Gohram Baloch, calling from an unknown place told newsmen that his organization was behind the attack. |
| Posted by:Fred |