According to FC sources, a raid was conducted on a small house near the Hazara graveyard which led to the arrest of the three men.                — File Photo

QUETTA: Officials of the Frontier Corps claimed on Sunday to have arrested three suspected terrorists in the Brewery road area.

According to FC sources, a raid was conducted on a small house near the Hazara graveyard which led to the arrest of the three men.

The sources said that two of the detained men belonged to outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan who had come to Quetta from Karachi and the third one belonged to the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi.

The suspects were handed over to authorities concerned for further investigation.

Two tribesmen killed

Two members of the ‘Bugti Amn Force’ were killed when a landmine blew up a vehicle in Loti area on Sunday.

According to sources, Sher Mohammad and Movezi were killed when their pick-up set off the landmine at Zamardan in the Loti gas field.

Another man and his 14-year-old grandson, who were in the vehicle, were injured.

Security personnel took the bodies and the injured to Sui Hospital.

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