QUETTA: Frontier Corps and Police personnel arrested 35 suspects and killed two suspected militants during an exchange of fire on Sunday. The law enforcement agencies (LEAs) were conducting raids in various parts of the city following yesterday’s bloody suicide attack.
Four security personnel and a 13-year-old girl were among those who lost their lives in the attack targeting an FC convoy.
Frontier Corps Spokesman Khan Wasey claimed two Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan members were killed during an encounter with security forces, and 35 people were taken into custody during raids at Sariab road and in surrounding areas.
The raids come as the death toll from Saturday’s TTP-claimed suicide bombing targeting FC personnel rose to 11 after a person injured in the attack died while undergoing treatment. Some 35 people, including 15 FC personnel, were injured in the attack.
Wasey said an operation has been launched against miscreants belonging to a banned outfit.
The arrested suspects will be interrogated by security personnel with regards to their alleged links to outlawed militant groups, he said. “The innocent will be freed after interrogation.”
“Such cowardly incidents will not stop us from acting against terrorists,” Inspector General FC Major General Sher Afgun said, referring to the suicide attack in the vicinity of the Quetta district courts.
