Ten people including five tribal police were killed and 13 injured in separate bomb blasts in Balochistan on Sunday, officials said. Three civilians — a man, a woman and a young girl — were killed and seven injured in two back-to-back bomb explosions at a state-run farm in the town of Kohlu, 300 kilometres east of Quetta, a security official told AFP.P. The official had earlier said that two paramilitary soldiers were killed in the blast. “Initial reports had indicated that two paramilitary soldiers were killed, but later the dead were identified as three civilians,” the official said, on condition of anonymity. He blamed the attack on tribal militants. The three civilians worked at the farm.Five tribal policemen and a private security official guarding an oil and gas exploration site of Pakistan Petroleum Limited were killed and four injured in a landmine explosion in the desert region of Sunny in Bolan district, tribal police official major Mohammed Anjum told AFP. Two of the policemen were killed and eight injured in a firefight following the explosion. “The fighting is still on,” a security official told Reuters in condition of anonymity.
A tractor driver was killed and two others injured in Jafferabad district when a tractor-trailer hit a landmine on Sunday, police official Khalid Magsi said.
Paramilitary forces also on Sunday defused a remote-controlled bomb planted on a main railway line near Mach station a couple of hours before two passenger trains were to pass the spot, a paramilitary commander said. Tribal chieftains say they are fighting for more political rights and a greater share of profits from the regionÂ’s natural resources. The Frontier Corp seized 35 shells in a raid in the Patokh area of Dera Bugti district.