Grenade
Grenade event in Quetta, Hazarganji area, Pakistan on Thu 12th August 2021
12th August 2021
Five Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) militants were killed during a search operation with the personnel of Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and Security Forces (SFs) in New Marri Camp area near Hazarganji suburb of the Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, on August 12, reports Dawn. The CTD officials said that the search operation was launched on the intelligence reports that militants were planning attacks on important places of the provincial capital on the eve of Independence Day. “Five suspected terrorists of banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) were killed in the exchange of fire,” a senior CTD official said, adding that three militants managed to escape taking the benefit of darkness. Arms and ammunition were recovered from the compound, including two sub-machine guns, three pistols and as many hand grenades. Two motorcycles, maps and documents were also recovered.
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