QUETTA, April 10: A 75-year-old man was killed and four security personnel and six other people were injured in three landmine explosions in Sui area on Tuesday.
Also on Tuesday, three bomb blasts rocked Khuzdar and a rocket hit a checkpoint in Mand area. Frontier Corps personnel arrested three people in Taftan near the Iran border and seized illegal weapons.
Police sources said the Bugti tribesman died in a landmine blast while he was working in a field in Denari Pat area.
Dera Bugti District Police Officer Najam Tareen told Dawn that six people were injured in another blast in the same area. Police sources said they were going to Sui in a pick-up which hit a landmine. The injured, who belonged to the Bugti tribe, were taken to the Sui hospital. Later, the critically injured were taken to Pano Aqil.
Sources said four security personnel were injured in Safari Mat area when their vehicle hit a landmine. They were taken to a military hospital.
In Khuzdar, an explosion damaged a wall of the Civil Hospital. A little later, a bomb exploded near the tehsil council office, smashing windowpanes of nearby homes and buildings. The third blast in the courtyard of the Baldia office damaged a tractor.
A rocket hit the training area of FC Qila in Mand.
