A Frontier Corps (FC) personnel was martyred when an explosive device (IED), targeting a water tanker, exploded in Balochistan’s Hoshab district on Sunday.

According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the terrorists targeted a water tanker through pressurized IED in Hoshab district and resultantly one soldier of FC Balochistan named Sepoy Kifait Ullah embraced martyrdom.

ISPR statement said that the security forces have launched a sanitization operation in the area to apprehend the perpetrators of the attack. It says, “Such cowardly acts by inimical elements, backed by hostile Intelligence Agencies (HIAs) cannot sabotage the hard-earned peace and prosperity in Balochistan.”

Security forces are determined to neutralize their nefarious designs even at the cost of blood and lives, read the statement.