QUETTA: Six security officials were killed in an attack in Balochistan’sKech district on Friday when their convoy came under heavy firing near theborder with Iran.
The province has been hit by a number of attacks on security personnel butthe number of large scale incidents has decreased significantly since 2016.
The provincial information minister Zahoor Ahmed Buledi told Reuters thatsix members of the Frontier Corps paramilitary force in charge of securityin the region were martyred in “heavy” firing along a mountainous stretchof road in the district.