FC post attacked

Published October 15, 2005

QUETTA, Oct 14: Unidentified men attacked a checkpost of the Frontier Corps with rockets and automatic weapons in Duki, Loralai district, on Thursday. Official sources said that at least six rockets were fired. However, the rockets exploded some 500 yards away from the checkpost. Later, the assailants holed up in the nearby mountains also fired around 450 rounds of heavy weapons. The FC men fired four rockets. —Staff Correspondent

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