QUETTA: Five personnel of Frontier Corps Baloch­istan were killed and two others injured on Thursday in a pre-dawn attack on their checkpost in Dukki area of Loralai district.

FC spokesperson Khan Wasey told Dawn that over a dozen men fired indiscriminately on the personnel deployed at the checkpost and fled.

Another official said the attackers had come in pick-ups from a nearby mountainous area and taking advantage of darkness stormed the checkpost. The attack was so sudden and intense that the FC personnel could not fire back. The assailants used advanced weapons and escaped towards mountains.

The official accused a militant organisation of being involved in the attack.

Bodies of the deceased and injured personnel were taken to the Combined Military Hospital in Loralai.

After the attack, personnel of Frontier Corps, police and Levies Force launched a sea­r­ch in Quetta, Loralai and oth­er districts and took into custody a number of suspects.

Published in Dawn, July 11th, 2014