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QUETTA, March 31: Security personnel and militants pounded each other with rockets in the Tartani area in Kohlu district on Saturday. Two bomb blasts rocked the coastal town of Pasni and Mastung.
Sources said that militants fired at least 24 rockets at Frontier Corps check posts in the Kahan tehsil. FC personnel also fired several rockets towards the militants’ positions. No casualty or damage was reported. Sources said that the armed men escaped after the security personnel fired rockets.
Meanwhile, an explosion in Mastung, about 55 kilometres from here, damaged a medical store and some nearby houses. Officials said that the locally-made explosive device was planted near the medical store.
Another explosion occurred in Pasni, which damaged the walls of a government office. No casualty was reported in either of the blasts.
RAILWAY LINE BLOWN UP: In a separate incident, railway traffic between Quetta and the rest of the country was disrupted when unknown attackers blew up the main track near the Aab-e-Gum area on Saturday night.
Sources said the culprits placed the explosive device under the track near the railway tunnel No 9 and blew it up suspending the traffic between Quetta and other parts of the country.
