Pakistan’s military said on Saturday attackers from Iran killed four of its border patrol soldiers.
“A group of terrorists operating on the Iranian side attacked a routine border patrol of Pakistani security forces operating along the Pakistani-Iranian border,” the army said in a statement.
The incident occurred in Kech district in the southwestern province of Balochistan, which shares a long lawless border with Afghanistan and Iran.
The military said Pakistani authorities are contacting Iran to seek ways to prevent such incidents in the future.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The region’s Baloch, a rebel nationalist ethnic group, say they are fighting for a larger share of the region’s resources. The groups operate on both sides of the border.
The province is rich in minerals and also has the deep-water port of Gawadar, which was developed with Chinese money as part of Beijing’s $65 billion investment in Pakistan’s ‘New Silk Road’.
Source: Terra
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