PESHAWAR: Six Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel were martyred in a road accident while eight others were injured, after the collision of a passenger van with the security forces’ vehicle.
According to a private TV channel, the incident took place at Daraban Zhob Road. The bus was going to Drazanda area of the city while the other vehicle was coming from Quetta
The deceased were identified as Razaq, Wali Yar and Taj Gull belonging to Frontier Constabulary Darazinda and Khushnod, Obaidullah, Muhammad Arsalan and Faisal Hayat from Frontier Constabulary Zhob. The injured include Maqbool, Touqeer, Quddus, Amad Hussain, Muhammad Waqar, Shahbaz, Asif, Khurshid and Arshad.
In May, Quetta was saved from a major disaster after security forces foiled a major terrorist attack, killing five suicide bombers who tried to storm a Frontier Corps compound in the city.
The terrorists mounted the attack on FC’s Madadgar Centre, presumably in retaliation for the killing of the Balochistan LeJ chief, Salman Badeni, a day earlier, in one of the city’s most secure neighbourhoods near Quetta cantonment.
Published in Daily Times, August 13th 2018.
