QUETTA, Feb 3: A suspected militant was killed in an operation in the Khal Gari area of Sui Tehsil on Sunday.

According to sources, security forces launched the operation on a tip-off about the presence of militants and their hideouts in the Khal Gari area in Sui Tehsil of Dera Bugti district. They were fired upon when they raided what was said to be a militant hideout.

“An armed man was killed in the exchange of fire,” a senior official told this correspondent on the telephone.

He said that security forces had destroyed the hideout and seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition, including rocket-launchers, rockets, anti-aircraft guns and thousands of bullets.

The sources said that some suspects had been taken into custody for questioning.

The Frontier Corps also claimed recovering a large quantity of arms and ammunition from the Gul Kach area of Zhob, including grenades, mortar bombs, AK-47 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

Meanwhile, an assistant sub-inspector and a constable were injured when armed men opened fire on a police vehicle when it was passing through the Joint Road late on Sunday evening.

“Yes, two police personnel received bullet injuries in the firing,” Rehmatullah Niazi, the DIG Operations, said, adding that the injured were admitted to the Civil Hospital.

Some bullets fired also hit the car of a journalist.