Unidentified attackers killed six people, including five police officers, when they ambushed a convoy in Pakistan’s troubled southwest on Thursday, officials said.
The attack occurred near Gurdan area in oil and gas-rich, but desperately poor Balochistan province bordering Afghanistan and Iran.
“The convoy headed by a senior local administration official, Naeem Gichki, was passing by an abandoned checkpoint of the tribal police...in two vehicles when they were attacked by a group of up to seven people, who were hiding in the post,” provincial home secretary Akbar Harifall told AFP.
He said the assailants fired rockets at the vehicles in the convoy and Gichki and five local tribal policemen were killed and three others injured in the attack.
Another senior local administration official Qurban Magsi confirmed the incident and casualties.
No group immediately claimed responsibility but Balochistan is plagued by roiling insurgencies.
Source: Arab News
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