— Dawn File Photo

QUETTA: Two personnel of the Frontier Corps and two of the Balochistan Constabulary and a Nato container driver were killed in acts of terror in Quetta, Mashkey and Hub town on Monday.

Official sources said the FC personnel were killed when they were attacked by unknown terrorists while they were coming out of the FC Fort in Mashkey. The two victims were identified as soldiers Saifullah and Zhazad.

Four FC personnel were seriously injured in Sakran area of Hub when a bomb strapped to a motorcycle exploded.

Two Balochistan Constabulary personnel were killed and another was injured when their convoy was ambushed on Eastern Bypass in Quetta.

Bodies of the two were taken to Civil Hospital in Quetta and they were identified as Abdul Haleem and Mohammad Arshad. Hospital sources said that condition of injured Yar Muhammad was critical. A driver of a Nato supply container, Mohammad Qasim, was killed in Sariab locality.—Saleem Shahid

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