QUETTA, May 2: One person was killed and two others suffered injuries when two landmines exploded in Dera Bugti and Chattar area of Nasirabad district on Tuesday. However, Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti claimed that at least 19 security personnel were killed and six others injured in a landmine blast in Sarposh area of the Sui tehsil.

A police officer in Dera Murad Jamali said that a villager was killed when a bullock-cart hit the landmine.

In another incident two persons were seriously injured when a landmine exploded in Dera Bugti area. They were cutting grass in the fields when a goat stepped on the landmine.

Nawab Bugti told newsmen over telephone that the 19 FC personnel died when a powerful landmine blew up a military truck in Sarposh area near the Sui township. Six others were injured, he added.

The chief of the Bugti tribe said FC also suffered human losses in Sangsilla area where armed tribesmen targeted a camp of the security forces.

After the attack, the forces launched an operation and used helicopter gunships, he said, adding that the operation continued for several hours.