Quetta, Aug 18: The death toll in Thursday’s landmine blasts in Dera Bugti district rose to seven after two more critically injured soldiers died on Friday.
“Two more security personnel succumbed to their injuries in a military hospital,” officialss said.
The Frontier Corps’ soldiers, identified as Mohammad Ziyad and Umar Zeb, had been injured in an anti-tank landmine blast in the Bhambhore area in Dera Bugti district on Thursday evening. Officials said that the condition of at least four more injured was also serious.
Five security personnel had been killed and 12 were wounded in two landmine explosions in Karmo Wadh and Bhambhore areas.
ACCIDENT: Two armymen were killed and another was seriously injured in an accident in Loralai on Friday.
Police said that the accident occurred as an army truck overturned on its way to a workshop.