At least three Levies personnel were martyred when a roadside bomb hit a security convoy in Balochistan's Awaran district on Tuesday.

Eight members of the paramilitary force were also wounded in the explosion, according to Ahmed Jan, a senior Levies official.

Jan said the bomb was remotely detonated. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Balochistan Levies is a force in charge of maintaining law and order in the tribal areas of the province.

The incident comes weeks after armed men opened fire at security officials in Balochistan's Killa Saifullah district, leaving two Levies personnel martyred and another injured.

Earlier on September 14, three Levies personnel were martyred and two others injured in a remote-controlled motorbike blast targeting the vehicle of Barshor’s assistant commissioner in Pishin district.