QUETTA, Sept 28: Four members of the Frontier Corps and five Baloch militants were killed in an armed clash in Proom area of Panjgur on Saturday.

Official sources said that one FC soldier was seriously injured in the attack.

The banned Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack.

A spokesman for the FC said here that Frontier Corps personnel were patrolling between checkposts in Proom area when militants ambushed them, killing three soldiers on the spot and injuring two others. Another soldier died in hospital. The spokesman said the FC troops returned fire, killing five attackers.

The troops also took into their custody motorcycles, arms and ammunition.

Baloch Liberation Army spokesman Sarbaz Baloch told journalists by phone from an unknown location that the attack was carried out by the BRA in which 10 FC soldiers were killed and over a dozen injured.