Police sources said Mohammad Yaqoob and Mohammad Ismail came under fire when they were on a patrol duty. One of them died on the spot and the other in hospital. The Baloch Libertarian Army claimed responsibility for the attack.

Calling from an unknown place on a satellite phone, Bebargh Baloch, a spokesman for the group, also claimed to have killed two security personnel in Kahan tehsil’s Karmo-Wadh area.

Official sources denied the claim about the killing in Karmo-Wadh.