QUETTA, April 15: Two security personnel were gunned down in Quetta and two other people were killed in landmine explosions near Dera Bugti on Tuesday.

Police sources said that some Frontier Constabulary personnel were standing in front of a shop on the Sabzal road on the outskirts of Quetta when two armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on them.

They said Saifur Rehman died on the spot and Saifitullah in a hospital.

In another incident, one person was killed and three other people suffered injuries when a landmine exploded in the Patokh area of Dera Bugti.

Just few yards away, another man was killed when the camel he was riding stepped on a landmine.

Meanwhile, sources said that armed people fired rockets on some checkposts of security forces in Dera Bugti. No one was injured in the attack.

A spokesman for the Baloch Liberation Army, Beebargh Baloch, has claimed responsibility for the killing of two FC men in Quetta.

Talking on a satellite phone, the spokesman also said that the BLA was behind landmine explosions in Mastung and Khuzdar.

He accused security forces of arresting many innocent people during search operations in the Seiah Koh area of Marri and Dera Bugti.

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