QUETTA, Aug 17: Five security personnel were killed and 12 others injured in two landmine explosions in Dera Bugti and Kohlu areas on Thursday night.
Sources told Dawn that a non-commissioned officer was among the dead.
They said the injured had been taken to a military hospital.
In the Karmo Wadh area of Kohlu, a vehicle carrying security personnel hit a landmine. Three soldiers, Amjad Ali, Tasawar Hussain and Matloob Hussain, were killed and seven were injured in the incident.
The sources said two personnel of the Frontier Corps, including the non-commissioned officer, were killed and five others injured when their vehicle hit a landmine in the Bhambhoor area of Dera Bugti district.
Those killed were Sobedar Kashmir Khan Afridi and Abdul Khaliq Afridi.
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