March 20, 2008	Thursday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 11, 1429

QUETTA, March 19: A Frontier Corps man was killed and another was injured by armed men on a motorbike on the Manu Jan Road on Wednesday.

Police sources said FC personnel Zulfiqar Ali and Muladad were going to a market when they came under attack. Zulfiqar died in the Combined Military Hospital and Muladad was in hospital. The assailants escaped.

Meanwhile, security forces foiled an attempt to blow up a bridge on the Dera Bugti-Sangsilla road.

About 55kgs of high explosives in two bags had been placed under the bridge but were detected before the saboteurs could detonate them.

Accident: Six workers were killed and 18 others injured when a tractor trolley carrying them overturned on the Patfeeder road on Wednesday.

The workers were going to the Kachhi canal project from Sui when the tractor overturned and fell into a gorge near Rerifaqir, 7km from the Sui town.

Sui police claimed that five people had been killed, but sources said six workers had died and 18 had suffered injuries who were taken to a nearby hospital.