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Islamabad
At least 20 soldiers from the army and a paramilitary force were killed in two separate attacks in Pakistan, officials said on Thursday.
“Six soldiers including an officer were killed in an attack on a convoy of security forces,” in the tribal district of North Waziristan, the military’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
Terrorists used an improvised explosive device (IED) to target the convoy, the statement said.
In the second incident, at least 14 soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked security forces in Pakistan’s volatile Balochistan province, Sajjad Hussain, a police spokesperson in Quetta, told DPA.
The incident took place on the Makran Coastal highway in the Gwadar district of the south-western province, when unidentified gunmen attacked a convoy belonging to the paramilitary force Frontier Corps (FC).
Hussain said that two of the convoy’s three vehicles were destroyed after being hit by rocket launchers. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks so far.
Islamabad
At least 20 soldiers from the army and a paramilitary force were killed in two separate attacks in Pakistan, officials said on Thursday.
“Six soldiers including an officer were killed in an attack on a convoy of security forces,” in the tribal district of North Waziristan, the military’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
Terrorists used an improvised explosive device (IED) to target the convoy, the statement said.
In the second incident, at least 14 soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked security forces in Pakistan’s volatile Balochistan province, Sajjad Hussain, a police spokesperson in Quetta, told DPA.
The incident took place on the Makran Coastal highway in the Gwadar district of the south-western province, when unidentified gunmen attacked a convoy belonging to the paramilitary force Frontier Corps (FC).
Hussain said that two of the convoy’s three vehicles were destroyed after being hit by rocket launchers. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks so far.
