Paramilitary said a bomb planted on a bicycle and a shootout killed two soldiers and wounded seven others in separate incidents Kech on Wednesday. The Frontier Corps said the exchange of fire took place in the far-flung Kechh district, in the insurgency-rife Balochistan province along the Iranian border, where militants had taken refuge in a house.
"One soldier embraced martyrdom while troops killed all five terrorists and recovered arms and ammunition," FC spokesman Murtaza Baig told AFP. A bomb planted on a cycle exploded alongside a paramilitary patrol in Qalat district, some 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of Quetta, killing one soldier and wounding seven, the spokesman said.