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| FC man killed in Quetta |
| 2008-04-02 |
| Police say that unidentified gunmen have killed one Frontier Corps (FC) soldier and injured four others after opening fire on a troop deployment here on Tuesday. Police official Raja Fayyaz told news agency AP that the soldiers came under fire as they travelled through Quetta on a routine patrol. Daily Times learnt that the soldiers were returning to their headquarters when they were ambushed in a Baloch-dominated locality. Habibur Rehman died on the spot, while four other soldiers — Abdul Wali, Naveed Akhtar, Amir Nawaz and Didar Khan — were injured. The injured were shifted to the Combined Military Hospital in Quettata’s Cantonment for immediate treatment. Local police cordoned off the area and initiated a search for the gunmen, the APP news agency reported. |
| Posted by:Fred |