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| Nine terrorists killed, soldier martyred in Balochistan in search for abducted man |
| 2022-07-16 |
Yesterday the kidnap murder, today the rest of the encounter. [Dawn] Nine bad boyz were potted and a havildar was martyred during an operation against the killers of Lt Col Laiq Baig Mirza, an army officer who was kidnapped earlier this week while travelling to Quetta from Ziarat, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Friday.However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... Lt Col Mirza’s cousin, Umer Javed, who was kidnapped alongside him en route to Quetta, has yet to be recovered. Security forces swooped down on a "hideout of terrorists" in the mountains near Ziarat after Thursday midnight, ISPR said. Once the holy warriors realised they had been encircled, according to the statement, they shot up the advancing contingent, resulting in the martyrdom of Havildar Khan Muhammad. The security forces later undertook a "clearance operation" and managed to eliminate five fighters belonging to the proscribed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) after a heavy exchange of fire. The security forces then spotted another group of holy warriors near Ziarat Nullah and killed four of them, the statement added. The rest escaped under cover of heavy rain and darkness. "The nine bodies of holy warriors are being handed over to the civil administration for completion of legal formalities," officials said. In a statement on Thursday, ISPR had said that SSG commandos had launched a search operation to recover the men and that on the night between July 13 and 14, a group of six to eight holy warriors was spotted moving in a nullah in nearby mountains. Seeing the forces closing-in, the turbans shot Lt Col Mirza in the head and attempted to flee, the statement added. In the ensuing exchange of fire, two bad boyz were potted while the remaining managed to flee, along with their other captive, Mr Umer.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 a deliberate search operation was launched As opposed to an inadvertent one. 🐒 |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-07-16 06:36 |