Five terrorists killed in Pakistan near Iran border

Pakistani security forces have killed five terrorists in two separate operations in Pakistani province of Balochistan near Iranian border, local media reported.

Iran Press/Asia: The security forces conducted operations in Khuzdar and Turbat areas of Balohcistan province of Pakistan. 
The police also recovered radio sets, transmitters, GPS devices, explosives and huge cache of arms from the terrorists. 

Pakistani province of Balochistan has faced a number of security challenges in recent months, with security personnel in the province often being targeted by roadside improvised explosive device (IED), IRNA reported.

Last month at least 14 security officials were offloaded from buses and were shot dead by terrorists on the Makran Coastal Highway. 

In the same month 22 people were killed and several others injured in a terrorist attack in Quetta targeting Shia community.

Balochistan is regularly hit by homegrown militancy and sectarian violence.

Violence in Pakistan has however dropped significantly since the country's deadliest-ever militant attack, an assault on a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar in 2014 that killed more than 150 people, most of them children. 103

 

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