Five border body staff (FC) were martyred and at least 12 wounded on Sunday when an explosion occurred near an FC convoy in Noshki on the national road, authorities said.
According to the Noshki Station officer (SHO) Zafarullah Sumalani, the initial investigations suggest that the incident was a suicide attack.
Sho Sumalani said the evidence of the attack site suggested that a suicide attacker attacked a vehicle loaded with explosives in the FC convoy.
The injured were being transferred to the FC camp and the Noshki Teaching Hospital, where an emergency has been imposed.
Sho Sumalani feared that the number of deaths and the number of injured would rise since several of the wounded in critical condition.
Baluchistan’s Prime Minister Sarfraz Bugti condemned the attack and expressed sadness for the loss of lives.
“Those who play with the peace of Baluchistan will be taken to a tragic end,” Bugti said in an official press release.
“Cowardly attacks cannot reduce our morals,” he said. “There is no place for terrorists in Baluchistan, peace will be established at all costs.”
CM Bugti said that all possible steps will be taken to take the enemies of peace before justice.
“This war will continue until the last terrorist is eliminated,” said the prime minister, adding that all in Baluchistan are indebted to those who shed his blood for this homeland.
The Baluchistan government condemned the attack, said spokesman Shahid Rind in a statement.
“Going to innocent civilians is a brutal act,” said the statement. Rind prayed for the rapid recovery of the injured and expressed condolences to the families of the deceased.
“The enemy elements are trying to destabilize the country,” the statement said. “People’s moral cannot be reduced through terrorism.”
“We are with the affected families in their time of pain,” said Rind.
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