Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan conducted intelligence-based operations in Mastung and Rojhan Jamali on terrorists hideouts involved in target killing and grenade attacks, an ISPR press release said on Friday.

In three separate attacks Thursday evening, a member of Panjgur Rifles was martyred and 40 people, including four security personnel, were injured in Panjgur, Gwadar and Mastung districts of Balochistan on Thursday.

During Friday's operations, one suspected terrorist was killed and seven were apprehended while a cache of arms and ammunition including explosives was recovered, the army's media wing said.

It also added that "19 terrorists and their facilitators were apprehended" and large number of illegal weapons were recovered in IBOs conducted by security forces during the last 48 hours in DG Khan, Attock, Islamabad and Lahore.

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