At least three soldiers of Frontier Corps (FC) were martyred when their convoy came under gun and rocket attack in a remote hilly area of Gwadar district on Friday. The security convoy was on its routine patrolling in Sunt Sar area, around 70 kilometres north of the Gwadar port, when unknown miscreants, armed with rockets and sophisticated weapons, attacked the military vehicles.
Sources said three of the soldiers embraced martyrdom whereas five others were wounded as attackers managed to flee in mountains. Soon after the attack, reports said, security forces arrived in the area to kick off search operation in the mountainous area of restive Balochistan province where militants and separatists frequently attack law-enforcers as well as government installations.