Militants attack Pasni radar-post in Balochistan, kill guard

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Militants attack Pasni radar-post in Balochistan, kill guard

QUETTA: A person assigned to guard Pasni Radar-Post in Balochistan was killed when on Saturday a group of eight armed men attacked there and damaged some technical equipments installed at the air traffic control post, media citing an unnamed official in the province’s home and tribal affairs department reported.

   

“The militants made eight personnel hostage after the attack,” the official said, adding that one of them was killed after resistance.

The official said that the militants also destroyed some technical equipment and planted a bomb at the Radar-Post after they fled away the site.

“The assailants planted a bomb after the attack,” he said and informed that the bomb disposal squad was called in to defuse the bomb.

“Militants sped away in their vehicles after the attack,” the official added.

The Pasni Radar-post, located 131 kilometer east from Pakistan’s port city of Gwadar, controls air traffic from Western and Gulf countries towards South Asia and Central Asian States.

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