QUETTA: The death toll from the Harnai bomb attack rose to eight on Tuesday as two more personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) succumbed to their injuries.

The banned Baloch Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the blast, which occurred in the Khost area, about 16km from the Harnai town.

Six FC personnel were martyred on Monday when their vehicle was hit by a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) while it was passing through Khost, about 150km northeast of Quetta.

The driver and a non-commissioned officer of the paramilitary force were also injured in the explosion. The IED was planted in the middle of the road linking Shahrag to Harnai. The injured were shifted to hospital where they succumbed to their injuries.

Published in Dawn, August 16th, 2017