QUETTA: Gunmen attacked a coastguard check-post in southwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing seven officials and wounding seven others, officials said.
The incident happened in the Suntsar area of Gwadar district, 1,420km southwest of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas rich Baluchistan province that borders Iran and Afghanistan.
“Around 24 gunmen armed with rockets and heavy weapons, attacked the checkpost and killed seven coastguard officials,” provincial home secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said.
He said at least seven coastguard officials were also injured in the early morning attack.
A local tribal police official Muhammad Ali also confirmed the attack and casualties and said the identity of the attackers was not immediately known. Baluchistan suffers from both Islamist militancy and a regional insurgency which began in 2004, with rebels demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region’s natural resources.
Soldier dies in India firing
ISLAMABAD: Indian troops shot and killed one Pakistani soldier and injured another in an “unprovoked” attack across the countries’ disputed border in Kashmir, Pakistan’s army said yesterday.
“A soldier embraced martyrdom while another was seriously injured due to unprovoked firing by Indian troops in Rawala Kot area at the Line of Control (LoC) on Saturday,” the army said in a statement.
Kashmir, a Muslim-majority territory, is divided into Indian and Pakistani-administered sectors but is claimed in full by both sides.
It has been the cause of two of three wars between India and Pakistan since independence from Britain in 1947.
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