Suspected militants blew up an electricity pylon and fired rockets at a paramilitary camp, officials said on Tuesday. | "Inspector! Someone blew up an electricity pylon and fired rockets at the paramilitary camp!" "Ahah! Legume, I suspect they may be militants!" |
Rafi Pervez Bhatti, the deputy inspector general of police in Quetta, said that the police raided the Marri Camp in the Western Bypass area on a tip-off and arrested the three. The police official said one of the arrested men had been identified as Abdur Rehman Marri who he said was wanted in the Justice Marri murder case. The three were involved in rocket attacks and bomb explosions in Balochistan. The police official said the Baloch Liberation Army and Baloch Liberation Front claim responsibility for these blasts and attacks earleir. In another raid, police arrested two suspects from a banned Sunni group and near a Shia mosque where Shias were busy mourning in connection with Muharram. Rahim Jaffery, a Shia scouts leader, said that the scouts pointed out that the two suspects were involved in mysterious activities near the mosque.
Meanwhile, four rockets fired from mountains landed near a paramilitary camp in Kohlu district 230 kilometres east of Quetta on Monday but there were no casualties or damage, police said. Paramilitary personnel also seized four rockets, four bombs, detonators and fuses.