DERA GHAZI KHAN, April 28: A policeman and an army man were shot dead and five passengers, including two army personnel, injured in an attack on a D.G. Khan-bound van near Rakni in Balochistan.

According to reports reaching here, the van was coming from Loralai when it was intercepted allegedly by Baloch militants.

Mohammed Taqi of police’s special branch and Husnain Majeed of the army were killed and army men Rabnawaz and Parwaiz and three other people, Allah Ditta, Fehmeed Umer and Azizullah, were injured in indiscriminate firing by the assailants.—Tariq Saeed Birmani

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