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Militants attack FC post in Barkhan, arms recovered in Chagai

Quetta - A checkpost of the Frontier Corps was attacked in Barkhan, some 300 KM southeast of Quetta on Tuesday as FC Balochistan personnel recovered weapons from Pak-Iran border.
FC officials said the force personnel raided a place close to Iran border, Landi in Chagai district, some 600 kilometers west of Quetta and recovered three SMG rifles, two pistols and over 995 rounds. However, no arrest was made during the raid.
Meanwhile, unidentified armed men attacked an FC checkpost in Dolwai area of Barkhan. However, no loss of life was reported in the attack. The attackers fled when FC personnel retaliated.
A spokesman of the Baloch Liberation Army, Azad Baloch, accepting the responsibility for the attack on the FC post, claimed that in the attack FC personnel were killed and three were injured. He claimed that in another attack on FC camp in Kohlu, five FC men were killed and two were injured. However FC officials denied that the attack caused any damage.

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