Attacks on army bases in Pakistan leaves 4 soldiers dead
Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed says the army succeeded in repelling two attacks on two bases on Thursday.
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The attacks caused the death of 15 insurgents and 4 soldiers
Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed announced on Thursday that the Army successfully repelled two attacks Thursday night on two bases in the southwest of the country, resulting in the death of four soldiers and 15 insurgents.
In a video statement, he added that a combing operation is underway in Baluchistan Province.
The separatist Baluchistan Liberation Army also claimed responsibility for the two attacks, announcing in a statement that suicide bombers detonated car bombs at the entrance to the two bases, killing more than 50 soldiers, as per their claims.
Last week, an army statement announced that ten Pakistani troops were killed in a checkpoint gunfight, in an incident that separatists in the country's restive southern province of Balochistan claimed responsibility for.
Ten Pakistani soldiers were killed "during an intense exchange of fire" while defending a station in the Kech area of Balochistan overnight on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the Pakistani army.
The Baloch Nationalist Army (BNA), another separatist group from the province, carried off a bombing in the eastern city of Lahore last month, killing three people. Separatists have waged an insurgency in Balochistan, Pakistan's largest but least populous province, which borders Iran, for years. It is the country's poorest region, but it is mineral-rich.
The mountainous area of Kech is located just north of Gwadar, Pakistan. Last April, four people were killed and many were injured in a suicide bombing at a fancy hotel in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, which was hosting the Chinese envoy. The diplomat escaped with minor injuries.
