BLA claims 18 killed in suicide vehicle attack on Pakistan Army camp in Balochistan
NEW DELHI: Multiple casualties were reported in a VBIED attack at Pak army’s main camp in Mastung, Balochistan Thursday. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have eliminated 18 personnel.
According to BLA, its Fidayeen attack, the Majeed Brigade, carried out an operation in the Kanak area of Mastung, targeting a Pakistani military camp with a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device followed by an assault by its armed fighters who entered the premises and targeted military personnel.
The attack unfolded while a meeting of senior Pak Army personnel including colonel rank officials was underway when the mini-truck laden with explosives rammed into the main gate of the camp.
The area has been on the boil since Wednesday. According to pro-BLA accounts on Telegram, Pak security forces were carrying out “operation Radd-ul-Fitna”, aimed at destroying tunnels allegedly made by Baloch rebels, on Wednesday and Thursday in the area.
They claimed to have destroyed seven tunnels and seized arms, ammunition and explosives. In Musakhel, unidentified set ablaze construction machinery and a separate explosion destroyed a bridge in Mastung.
On Wednesday, 13 Pakistani police personnel including a Deputy Superintendent of Police were killed after fighters from the rebel group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) launched a major attack targeting mobile police units in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to BLA, its Fidayeen attack, the Majeed Brigade, carried out an operation in the Kanak area of Mastung, targeting a Pakistani military camp with a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device followed by an assault by its armed fighters who entered the premises and targeted military personnel.
The attack unfolded while a meeting of senior Pak Army personnel including colonel rank officials was underway when the mini-truck laden with explosives rammed into the main gate of the camp.
The area has been on the boil since Wednesday. According to pro-BLA accounts on Telegram, Pak security forces were carrying out “operation Radd-ul-Fitna”, aimed at destroying tunnels allegedly made by Baloch rebels, on Wednesday and Thursday in the area.
They claimed to have destroyed seven tunnels and seized arms, ammunition and explosives. In Musakhel, unidentified set ablaze construction machinery and a separate explosion destroyed a bridge in Mastung.
On Wednesday, 13 Pakistani police personnel including a Deputy Superintendent of Police were killed after fighters from the rebel group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) launched a major attack targeting mobile police units in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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