QUETTA: Security forces arrested eight suspected militants from Balochistan's Dera Bugti and Zhob districts on Saturday evening.

The Frontier Corps spokesman said “six miscreants were apprehended after an exchange of fire in Lope Sirani area of Dera Bugti district.”

The security personnel recovered weapons and explosives from the possession of miscreants including, he said.

"The miscreants wanted to blow up gas pipelines in the area," the FC spokesman said.

Elsewhere, security forces arrested two suspected militants in Zhob district.

A security personnel who declined to be named told DawnNews that weapons were also recovered from the possession of miscreants.

He said the miscreants belonged to a banned militant organisation.