QUETTA, Feb 4: A man was killed and three people suffered serious injuries when a tractor trolley hit a landmine in the Pat Feeder area near Sui tehsil on Monday.
According to official sources, the tractor trolley hit the landmine near RD-238. The powerful blast destroyed the trolley, injuring four people, including the driver. Police arrived at the place and took the injured to the Civil Hospital in Dera Allahyar where one of them died.
According to police sources, two pylons of the 220 KV transmission line near Dear Allahyar were blown up on Monday morning.
Meanwhile, Beebarg Baloch, a spokesman for the Baloch Liberation Army, claimed that the BLA had attacked security forces in Kahan and Siha Giri area of Kohlu district. He said that security forces had suffered heavy losses.
Calling from an unidentified location, he told newsmen that the BLA was also involved in attacking a police vehicle in Quetta and blowing up power pylons in Dera Allahyar and Hub.
However, official sources denied that security forces had come under any attack.
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