Pak militants kill 14 soldiers in Balochistan

February 01, 2012 12:33

At least 14 paramilitary troopers were killed in a militant attack on a security post in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan, official sources said today.

Sources in the Frontier Corps told reporters in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, that 15 more troopers were injured in the attack in Sibi district late last night.

When troopers did not return to their barracks from a check post in Marawar area, 40 km from Quetta, last evening, other soldiers went to the post. They found 14 bodies and injured troopers lying at the post, the sources said.

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