QUETTA: Two Levies soldiers were martyred and two others, including an officer, were wounded in an exchange of fire with dacoits on the Loralai-Musakhel highway near Rarasham late on Monday.

Officials said Levies personnel, acting on a tip-off, conducted a raid at the hideout of a gang of armed robbers in the Rarasham area of Tehsil Kingri, where they came under fire. In an ensuing encounter, two soldiers Khanan Shamzai and Khaliquz Zaman embraced martyrdom and two others including an officer sustained injuries, while the armed men fled the scene.

Security forces later reached the site and shifted the bodies and the injured to hospital.

Published in Dawn, August 8th, 2023