QUETTA, Oct 10: Three persons including two members of Frontier Corps were killed and two other injured seriously in a rocket attack on a vehicle fired by unknown people in Margat area between Mach and Dhadar, some 90 km east of here, on Friday.

Official sources confirmed that a civilian sitting near the vehicle was also killed. The injured have been admitted to CMH, Quetta.

They said the FC men were on their duty near Indus Coal Company during which unknown people fired two rockets on the vehicle from the nearby mountains. One rocket hit the vehicle while other landed in the open place.

Those killed were identified as Subedar Abdul Hameed, Sepoy Hakim Khan and a manager of the coal company Ghulam Hussain.