Dozens of soldiers and fighters who were killed in a separatist Baloch attack in Pakistan Conflict news

The fighters are said to shoot a vehicle holding a semi -military border vertebral who are trying to dismantle the road barrier.

At least 18 paramilitary soldiers and 24 armed attackers were killed in two related accidents in southwestern Pakistan, according to local officials and media reports, where sectarian, ethnic and separatist violence escalated in the region.

The Pakistan Army said on Saturday that the fighters tried to create road barriers overnight The comfortable Balochistan ProvinceAnd most of the deaths took place when the security forces were removed.

A police official told Agence France Presse that a vehicle “carried an unarmed deficit” near the town of Mango “was shot from 70 to 80 armed attackers who prevented the road.

The officer said that three other paramilitary forces were seriously injured, while two of the harm escaped.

In a statement, the Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack on the paramilitary, but gave the least number of deaths from 17.

At least 11 attackers were killed in what the army described as “clearance operations” on Saturday.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shibaz Sharif condemned the attack.

Baluchistan rich in minerals, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, A scene of rebellion is a decade of time By separatist ethnic ostens groups. Several armed groups also work there.

On Tuesday, in a separate incident, the attackers were thwarted in an explosive vehicle in their attempt to overcome the position of Pakistani security near the border with Afghanistan.

In January, at least six people were killed in an attack called BLA, one of the main separatist groups in the region. In November, BLA also said it carried out coordinated attacks that killed at least 39 people, one of the highest drawings in the area.

In August, at least 73 people were killed in Balochistan when separatist fighters attacked police stations, railways, highways, and security forces.

Violence also comes in the background of the increasing relations between Pakistan and the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan.

It has seen a dramatic rise in attacks elsewhere in Pakistan in recent months, including in the northern western Khyberbuch Bakhtongu Province.

In 2024 alone, the army reported 383 soldiers and 925 fighters killed in Various border clashes.