QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A remotely-detonated bomb killed three workers doing a survey for a local oil exploration company in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. Two paramilitary troops were also injured on July 2 when gunmen ambushed their convoy with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in the southwestern province of Balochistan, said Hasil Khan, a local administrator. Hasil Khan, a local administrator in Awaran district of Baluchistan province, says the convoy came under an attack by gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades in the district’s Mashki area on Monday. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack in a district where militants linked to outlawed separatist Baluch Liberation Front (BLA) are active. Resource-rich Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, has been plagued by sectarian violence, Islamist militant attacks, and a separatist insurgency that has led to thousands of casualties since 2004.
Militants ambush a paramilitary convoy in Awaran, Baluchistan, Pakistan and kill six people.