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QUETTA - Four Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were martyred and three others suffered injuries in a bomb blast near a security official’s vehicle in Quetta’s Margate area, police sources said on Friday. According to local police the bomb disposal squad of the security forces was targeted with an improvised explosive device in a Quetta suburb. As a result of the explosion, four FC personnel were martyred and three others were injured.
The injured were immediately shifted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH). Those martyred included Subedar Shahzad Amin, Naib Subedar Abbas and Sepoy Khalil and Sepoy Zahid. Among the injured were Lance Naik Zafar, Lines Naik Farooq and Sepoy Khurram Saleem.
Security forces have cordoned off the area and started a search operation for the suspects. President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the Quetta blast and expressed condolences over the loss of life”, according to a statement from the President’s House. “The president pays tribute to martyred FC soldiers for their services in defending the country,” the statement said, adding that he reiterated the national re-solve to eradicate terrorism.
“The entire nation salutes its martyrs and acknowledges their sacrifices,” it quoted President Zardari as saying. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi also condemned Quetta landmine at-tack and paid tribute to martyred FC personnel PM orders transparency in PIA’s privatisation Tags: fc personnel martyred.
