QUETTA, May 17: A Frontier Corps soldier was killed and another was seriously injured in firing by tribesmen while four more were injured in a landmine blast in the Kahan area of Kohlu district on Thursday.

Officials identified the deceased as Gul Rehman while the injured soldier was identified as Sher Mohammad.

Four other security personnel were seriously injured after they stepped over a powerful landmine while patrolling in Nal in the same area on Wednesday night.

The injured soldiers were identified as Mukhtar Ahmed, Moleem, Mohsin Khan and Saeed Ahmed. They were immediately taken to Sibi for hospitalisation.

Saboteurs are also learnt to have blown up a 132-KV power supply pylon of the Sibi-Harnai transmission line early on Thursday morning near the Kalatak area, disrupting electricity supply to a large area in the Harnai tehsil.

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