QUETTA: A senior police officer and two suspected militants were killed in an exchange of fire in Balochistan on Thursday, police said. The killings took place in Lora Lai district, some 300 kilometres southeast of Quetta, when police raided a militant hideout, Arif Akram, a senior police official, told AFP. Police officer Khalid Garamkani was killed and another officer was injured in the shootout in which two militants were also killed, Akram said. But The Associated Press said that three police officers were wounded in the pre-dawn shootout in Nasirabad village of the Lora Lai district.