Rockets hit FC camp in Kohlu

Published February 7, 2006

QUETTA, Feb 6: Saboteurs on Monday fired two rockets on a Frontier Corps camp in Kohlu township and damaged a portion of a mosque in the premises. However, no casualties were reported.

Sources said the rockets were fired from Jandaran Mountains.

Paramilitary forces mounted a retaliatory attack on Kahan and some other areas of Kohlu district, including Tarkani, Peshi and Sur-e-Kor.

Sources said that helicopters gun-ships took part in the action against the militants. “Fighter jets were seen flying over these areas and they attacked at some places,” an elder of the Marri tribe Allah Bakhsh Marri told Dawn.

Mr Marri said that two children received injuries when a shell exploded in Karimo-Wadh area of Kahan. However, no other casualty was reported in these areas despite rocket and mortar fire.

DERA BUGTI: Unidentified assailants fired at least six rockets at the Frontier Corps (FC) Fort in Dera Bugti township on Monday evening. The rockets exploded close to the fort but caused no damage to the building.

Sources said the attackers fled when FC personnel returned fire.

Security forces wrested control of a camp run by armed tribesmen near Sangsilla in Dera Bugti, officials said. Fourteen missiles, five rockets and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were recovered from the camp, they said.

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