QUETTA: A Levies personnel was killed on Saturday while two other sustained injuries in an armed attack targeting the vehicle of Assistant Commissioner Kalat.

“One assailant was also killed when Levies personnel retaliated to the attack,” said Tufail Baloch, the Deputy Commissioner of Kalat.

The injured Levies personnel were shifted to an area hospital where their condition was said to be stable.

The dead assailant is yet to be identified by security forces.

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The assistant commissioner and Levies personnel were conducting a search operation against bandits and robbers in Surmai area of Kalat district when they came under attack from the assailants.

Following the attack, reinforcements of Levies were called up and a search operation was initiated in the area.

There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.

Earlier in September, two Levies personnel were killed in a suspected targeted killing incident in Balochistan’s Awaran district.

Militants in the area have been targeting security forces and pro-government personalities in the area for more than a decade.

Security forces have intensified their actions in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan after the announcement of the National Action Plan to combat terrorism in the country.

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