The Pakistani military says five members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps have been killed in an ambush in the volatile southwestern province of Balochistan.
Unidentified gunmen carried out the attack in Sangan area on June 24 when the security forces were on routine patrol, the army’s media wing said.
Five soldiers of Frontier Corps Balochistan were killed in an exchange of fire with the terrorists, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan armed forces.
Four Frontier Corps members were killed immediately, while another died in hospital.
No group has immediately claimed responsibility.
There has been a surge in assaults on Pakistani security forces in Balochistan in recent months.
A search operation is also in progress to block the escape routes of the terrorists and apprehend the perpetrators, the ISPR said.
Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has condemned the attack.
”Terrorists cannot demoralise us by carrying out such cowardly attacks. The state will fight against terrorists with all its might,” he said, Earlier this month, four soldiers from FC Balochistan were killed in a blast on the Marget-Quetta Road.
Resource-rich Balochistan for a long time has witnessed violence by the Taliban and Baloch nationalists.
