Kalat: Levies personnel martyred, 2 others injured in checkpost attack

A levies personnel was martyred while two others were injured on Sunday as a result of an attack on a checkpost in Balochistan’s Kalat district, officials said.

In a statement, Balochistan government spokesperson Shahid Rind said, “One personnel was martyred while two were injured in an attack on a Levies checkpost in Kalat.”

He added that the Levies force immediately retaliated, forcing the assailants to flee. An investigation into the attack has been ordered, Rind said.

The injured personnel have been shifted to Quetta for medical treatment, according to Rind.

The spokesperson further said a search operation was being carried out to arrest the miscreants and that directives on that had been issued to the law enforcement agencies.

Expressing the Balochistan government’s condolences on the incident, Rind paid tribute to the martyred security personnel and said he shared the grief of the bereaved family.

“The sacrifices rendered by the security forces to restore peace will not go to waste,” Rind asserted.

The checkpost assault comes just a day after four soldiers were martyred while 15 terrorists were killed in two separate intelligence-based operations (IBOs) carried out in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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