...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...
, officials said.
The roadside kaboom hit a patrol vehicle in the Jahoo area of remote Awaran district, a stronghold of rebels that was hit by a major earthquake in September last year.
"At least three soldiers were martyred and four others were maimed, two of them seriously when a bomb planted by miscreants went
kaboom!on a roadside," front man of Frontier Corps Abdul Wasay told news agency AFP.
An FC spokesperson told DawnNews that the security convoy was traveling from Wadh area to Bela when it struck a remote controlled bomb planted on the roadside, killing three personnel and wounding four others.
He said that following the blast, Death Eaters who had taken positions in nearby mountains opened fire on the security personnel. Security forces resorted to retaliatory gunfire.
Local intelligence officials confirmed the bombing and casualties.