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• Three FC men martyred as vehicle targeted in Chaman
• Four policemen lose their lives in KP’s Khar tehsil
• Attacker among six dead in Buleda home invasion
QUETTA / GWADAR: At least nine people, including three security personnel, were martyred in two incidents of armed attack in the border town of Chaman, and the Buleda area of Kech district in Balochistan on Wednesday.
Separately, four policemen embraced martyrdom in Khar tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Officials said unidentified terrorists targeted a vehicle carrying personnel of the Frontier Corps in Chaman, a border district on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The FC personnel were passing through the Roghani Road area of Chaman town when the terrorists opened indiscriminate fire on their vehicle, resulting in the martyrdom of three FC soldiers on the spot, while another was injured.
Additional Chief Secretary Home Hamza Shafqaat confirmed the number of casualties to Dawn. “We have received three bodies of FC men and one injured at Civil Hospital Chaman,” hospital official Niamatullah said, adding that the injured were being shifted to Quetta.
Police said the attackers were riding motorcycles and escaped from the area after carrying out the attack. They added that a search was underway and nobody had claimed responsibility so far.
Khar attack
In KP, four policemen were martyred and two others wounded when unidentified assailants opened fire on a police patrol party of the Ababil squad in the Nawai Kali area of Khar tehsil.
Bajaur’s Khar police station SHO Gul Zada said the personnel of the Ababil police squad were on routine patrol duty when unidentified attackers opened fire on them some four kilometres from Khar, the district headquarters. Four policemen were martyred on the spot and two were seriously wounded in the attack.
The official said the wounded policemen were immediately shifted to the district headquarters hospital.
Israr Khan, a police spokesperson, told Dawn that the policemen were returning to the Bajaur police lines from Inayat Kallay Bazaar when they came under attack.
He said the martyred policemen were identified as Yar Zada, Dawood Khan, Imran Khan and Siraj Khan, while Irshad Khan and Aziz ur Rehman were wounded. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Buleda home invasion
Meanwhile, six people, including an attacker, were killed in an armed attack on a house in the Buleda area of Kech district of the Makran division close to the Iran border.
Officials said a group of armed men reached the village of Minaz and attacked the house of Abdul Hameed in Muhammadi Bazaar.
They opened indiscriminate fire at the house, to which the residents retaliaed. A heavy exchange of fire continued for over an hour, during which the attackers fired a rocket towards the house that landed and exploded at a makeshift hut.
A fire broke out in the hut, killing a woman and one of the attackers. Both burned alive.
Buleda DSP Talal Gichki, while confirming the incident, told Dawn that one of the attackers was among the six dead, while four others were injured.
“During the exchange of fire, a rocket fired by armed men hit a hut,” DSP Gichki said, adding that the entire residence was burnt down as a result. Over a dozen heads of cattle were also lost in the attack.
Following the incident, security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to trace the attackers.
Saleem Shahid in Quetta, Behram Baloch in Gwadar and Our Correspondent in Bajaur also contributed to this report
Published in Dawn, February 26th, 2026
