An improvised explosive device (IED) has killed ‘several’ employees of a hydrocarbon exploration and production company in Dera Bugti Town.
According to the details received by The Balochistan Post, a vehicle of the company surveying the region was targeted with a remote controlled bomb in the restive Dera Bugti, where security situation continues to deteriorate since murder of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti in a military operation in 2006.
Baloch Republican Army (BRA), which claimed the responsibility for the attack, has said that six including an engineer were killed in the attack, whereas, at least two others were injured.
Pakistani police, on the other hand, has said that a bomb detonated by remote control killed three workers doing a survey for a local oil exploration company in Dera Bugti.
Local police official Mohammad Hussain says Tuesday’s bombing near the town of Dera Bugti in the Balochistan also wounded five surveyors.
The latest violence came a day after BLA targeted Pakistani hydrocarbon exploration company near Aab-e-Gum in Mach. The organisation’s spokesperson, Jeehand Baloch, had claimed that several employees of the oil and gas company were also killed.