Police van destroyed in ambush in SW Pakistan

A police vehicle was destroyed in an ambush Tuesday morning in Hazar Ganji area in the outskirts of provincial capital Quetta in the southwest Balochistan province, local police said.

No casualties were reported in the hand grenade attack on the police van, police sources added.

The frequency of attacks on law enforcement personnel has increased many folds during this year. Over a dozen policemen were killed and several others were injured in different attacks on police and paramilitary Frontier Corps personnel in Quetta and its suburbs.

Different ethnic Baloch separatist groups often choose sabotage as favorite means of demonstrating their unhappiness over policy issues and to press their demands.

Source: Xinhua