Dozens of heavily armed men stormed the town of Bhag in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province and attacked several government buildings, killing a police official and setting a police station and a paramilitary outpost on fire, according to the PTI news agency.
SSP Mazur Rehman said up to 50 armed men stormed Bhag in Kacchi district on motorcycles and attacked a paramilitary pickup truck, a police station, and a paramilitary post. He said the police station was completely gutted.
Moreover, Rehman said that a building of the National Bank was also damaged in the attack.
Rehman said that Bhag Police Station chief Lutaf Khosa was killed in the attack and two other policemen were injured.
He said Bhag SHO Lutaf Khosa received multiple injuries and lost his life while two other policemen were injured.
Earlier on Monday, militants attacked the convoy of Kech district’s deputy commissioner with bomb. While the DC was unhurt, 10 persons were injured.
