QUETTA: Six security personnel were martyred and another two injured in arocket attack on a bomb disposal team in the Mashkay area of Awarandistrict on Monday, Dawn News has reported
Official sources said the bomb disposal team was busy sweeping across thearea some 30km from Mashkay when the rocket fired from the nearby mountainslanded and exploded near them.
“Six personnel of the bomb disposal team were martyred on the spot when therocket hit them,” official sources said, adding that two soldiers wereinjured.
A contingent of security force rushed to the scene and shifted the bodiesand the injured to a nearby health facility.ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER AD
The deceased were identified as Havaldar Shabbir and Sepoys Sheraz, Bashir,Sharaj, Allah Nawaz and Abid. The injured were Sepoys Ehsan and Rashid.
According to sources, security forces launched a search operation in thearea to trace out the culprits involved in the attack.