QUETTA, Jan 13: Seven security personnel were injured in an explosion in the Pir Koh gas field area of Dera Bugti district on Tuesday. The explosion took place when a Frontier Corps vehicle was blown up by a bomb planted on a road and detonated by remote control.

Seven FC men in the vehicle were injured, four of them seriously. The vehicle was completely destroyed, official sources said.

Security personnel rushed to the area and took the injured to a hospital in Sui.

A spokesman for the banned Baloch Republican Army, Sarbaz Baloch, called newsmen from an unspecified place and claimed responsibility for the blast.

In another incident, three FC personnel were injured when their vehicle overturned near Sui.