Quetta (Balochistan), July 3: Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) carried out a massive attack, including a suicide blast, on a camp of Pakistan Coast Guard in Gwadar district of Balochistan and claimed to have killed 30 Pakistani soldiers and injured dozens of others.
The camp, located at Panwan in Jiwani area of Gwadar, was hit by a vehicle carrying explosives and driven by a suicide bomber.
There were massive explosions when the vehicle hit the gate of the camp which suffered extensive damage.
Immediately afterwards, more BLA fighters launched an assault on the camp from all sides to eliminate any surviving military personnel.
“This evening at 6:32 PM (Pakistan time), Attaullah Baloch alias Ajmal, a fidayeen (suicide) fighter of our elite unit, the Majeed Brigade, successfully drove an explosive-laden Mazda vehicle inside the Coast Guard camp at Panwan in the Jiwani area and detonated it,” BLA spokesman Jeeyand Baloch said in a statement.
“As a result of this powerful blast, the fortified colonial camp of the Coast Guards was completely turned into a heap of rubble,” he said.
“Immediately after the attack, our organization’s vanguard unit, the Fateh Squad, advanced rapidly and in an organized manner, launching an assault on the destroyed camp from all sides,” the spokesman said.
The fighters of the Fateh Squad “targeted the remaining personnel present near the camp, who had survived the blast and were suffering from extreme fear and panic, in close-quarter combat and shot them dead,” he said.
“In this successful operation, more than 30 enemy personnel have been killed so far, and dozens of others are seriously injured,” Jeeyand Baloch added.
Given the critical condition of the injured and the personnel trapped under the rubble, a further increase in the enemy’s casualties is highly likely, he said.
The spokesman said a detailed statement will be released to the media very soon. (NVI)
