QUETTA: A gun attack on a police vehicle in Quetta’s Arbab Karam Khan Road area on Wednesday left one policeman dead and another injured.
Unidentified attackers opened fire on the vehicle while it was on duty outside a mosque and fled the scene, police officials said.
Policeman Saeed Ahmed Langove was martyred while one of his colleagues was injured in the attack.
Soon after the incident, police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies reached the crime scene and started an investigation into the attack.
Balochistan has faced a number of security challenges in recent months, with security personnel in the province often being targeted in roadside explosions and suicide attacks.
On May 18, the provincial capital witnessed a major terrorist bid where five suicide bombers, attempting to storm the FC Madadgar Centre, were intercepted and killed by security forces.
On April 24, six policemen were killed and six others were injured in a suicide attack that targeted a police van on Airport Road in Quetta.
In January, seven people were killed on Quetta’s Zarghoon Road when a suicide bomber rammed into a parked police truck, injuring 16 people.
