Pakistan army says 4 soldiers killed in attack near Iran border
Al JazeeraIncident took place in Kech district in southwestern Balochistan province, which shares a long border with Afghanistan and Iran. Pakistan’s army said attackers from Iran killed four of its border patrol soldiers. The soldiers were part of a routine border patrol operating along the Pakistan-Iran border when fighters attacked in the Jalgai sector of Kech district, the military said in a statement on Saturday. “A group of terrorists operating from Iranian side attacked a routine border patrol of Pakistani security forces operating along Pakistan-Iran Border,” the military’s media wing ISPR said in a statement. In January, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif condemned the killing of four security officials along the border with Iran in Baluchistan.