QUETTA: Bloodshed and violence marred the first day of the holy month of Ramazan on Saturday as gunmen stormed a check-post and killed eight soldiers at a Coast Guards unit in the Pushkin area, some 35km from Gwadar, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported on 21 July, 2012.
“Armed men surrounded the Pushkin post of the Pakistan Coast Guards near the town of Gwadar and gunned down [eight] soldiers,” local administration chief Sohail-ur-Rehman said, adding that three other soldiers had been wounded in the attack.
The assailants, believed to be about a dozen, fled on motorbikes after the shooting, another official Rehmat Dashti said.
DND
