QUETTA: Frontier Corps personnel travelling in two vehicles escaped a bomb attack in the Brewery Road area on Friday, police said.

They added that a remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) was used to carry out the attack when the FC vehicles were passing through the Brewery and Esa Nagri roads interaction.

The IED, weighing aro­und seven kilogrammes, was buried along the roadside, the police said. “FC soldiers remained unhurt in the IED blast,” a senior police officer said, adding that the vehicle was damaged.

Soon after the blast, police and FC personnel rushed to the site, cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to track down the miscreants.

Published in Dawn, December 19th, 2020