17 August 2004	Tuesday	30 Jamadi-us-Saani 1425

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QUETTA, Aug 16: Four Frontier Corps personnel were killed and five others wounded when their vehicle came under fire near the Old Sui China camp, some 460km east of here, on Monday morning.

In attacks on Sunday night, another security guard was killed, 20 rockets were fired at the Old Sui China camp and a bomb exploded in Kalat. "Our four jawans were martyred and another five were injured in the armed attack," Lt-Col Mohammad Rizwan Malik, an FC spokesman said, adding that unidentified miscreants had used heavy automatic weapons, rockets and a remote-controlled bomb in the attack.

Sources said that a convoy of five vans carrying employees of the Pakistan Petroleum Ltd was on its way to Kashmore from Sui at 7am. As the convoy, escorted by three FC vehicles, reached near the Old Sui China camp, some unidentified attackers opened indiscriminate fire and lobbed rockets at it.

The FC vehicle at the tail-end of the convoy was hit and four FC men were killed on the spot. "A remote-controlled bomb, planted on the roadside, also exploded near the FC vehicle, blowing it up," officials in Sui told Dawn by telephone.

The FC personnel in other vehicles returned fire and tried to cordon off the place to capture the attackers. However, the assailants escaped. The dead were identified as Sobedar Mohammad Nawaz, Lance Naik Khalil Ahmed, Lance Naik Saeed Ahmed and sepoy Rafiq Ahmed. The injured FC men were admitted to the PPL hospital at Sui where the condition of three victims was stated to be serious.

Meanwhile, official sources at Sui said that a member of the Defence Security Guards, Mohammad Khan, was killed when a DSG vehicle was attacked near Dolli area on Sunday night.

The DSG vehicle was coming to Sui from Kashmore when it came under attack. Another guard received bullet injuries. He was admitted to the Sui hospital. The sources further said that miscreants had also fired around 20 rockets at Old Sui China camp area on Sunday night.

Four rockets landed and exploded near the houses, partially damaging the structure. Four persons were injured in the rocket attack. Reports from Kalat suggest that a bomb explosion rocked the township on Sunday night. "Yes, a bomb was exploded in the township that had been planted by the wall of the Lives police station," a police officer told Dawn. The wall was partially damaged.