Quetta, July 30: Three security men were killed and three others seriously injured in a landmine explosion in the Karmo Wadh area of Kohlu district on Sunday.

Officials said that the security personnel’s vehicle had hit an anti-tank mine as they were trying to clean up the area of land mines planted by militants.

Three others, who were seriously injured, were shifted to a military hospital.

Officials identified the soldiers killed in the blast as Mohammad Taslim, Ali Mohammad and Wali Bakhsh while the names of the injured are Naib Sobedar Mohammad Arshad, Noman Ali and Wali Bakhsh.

ROCKET ATTACK: Gwadar was rocked on Sunday night after a rocket hit an under-construction five-star hotel near Koh-i-Atil, police said.

“It was a 107mm rocket that struck the hotel,” a senior police officer from Gwadar told Dawn on telephone. No casualty was reported.

According to another report, a young boy identified as Mohammad Tariq was wounded seriously when a device he was holding exploded in Mastung on Sunday.

“It was a toy bomb. It went off when Tariq tried to open it,” police said. The boy was admitted to the Civil Hospital.

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