QUETTA, Sept 30: The proscribed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed on Sunday that a number of security personnel had been killed in ‘heavy fighting’ between militants and security forces in an area of Kahan tehsil of the Kohlu district.
Bebarg Baloch, claiming to be a spokesman for the BLA, said that militants had attacked a convoy of security forces in Phbey Kach area of Kahan, killing at least four soldiers and injuring six others.
Talking to Dawn by a satellite telephone from an unknown place, the spokesman asserted that the militants also killed two security men in the Bhombhoor area of the Kohlu district. He also claimed that a truck was attacked in Chamalang coal-mine area, leaving truck driver dead or seriously injured.
He said that helicopters were attacking different areas of Balochistan.
http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/01/nat8.htm
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