Eight security personnel wounded in Panjgoor ambush

QUETTA: At least eight security personnel were injured in Balochistan’s Panjgoor district when a military convoy was ambushed, security officials said.

“The security personnel were moving through the district’s mountainous Gichak area to conduct a raid against miscreants when they were fired upon,” said a security official.

The injured security personnel were rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.

Extra forces were called to the area after the ambush and started a search operation. No arrests were reported till the filing of this report. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack. Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri strongly condemned the attack.