Balochistan: BLA destroys air traffic radar at Panjgur airport

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Flights at Panjgur airport has been suspended after the Baloch Liberation Army destroyed the main radar on Friday.

According to details unknown men attack VOR radar system in the precincts of Panjgur International Airport burnt the equipment. As a result the VOR system - for determining the direction of the planes in the air – was damaged. The attacker also seized two armed security personnel, Tayyab and Mullah Saleem, from the airport located in Chitkan area of Panjgur district. The two security officials were guarding the radar when the attacker kidnapped them. Earlier a private Pakistani TV channel claimed that the attacker kidnapped six security officials deployed on the security of the airport VOR navigation system. It is worth mentioning that Baloch freedom fighters have attacked the Punjgor airport several times in past few weeks. Meanwhile a spokesperson of the Baloch Liberation Army, Jeeand Baloch, accepted responsibility for the attack and seizing the security officials.

He vowed to continue such attack until the freedom of Balochistan. Two day earlier the BLA claimed to have killed at least seven Pakistani soldiers in Lajjy area near Kharan Balochistan.

Jeeand Baloch claimed that BLA fighters attacked a camp of security forces in Patkan are of Kharan and a check post of FC in Lajjy area. He claimed that in both attack at least seven soldiers were killed and several other injured.

Separately, another pro-freedom group claimed that its fighters have attacked an FC patrolling team at Tump College Cross killing two soldiers and injuring three others on Friday afternoon.

Nohan Baloch a spokesperson for a lesser known Baloch militant group the BNLF (Baloch National Liberation Front) claimed responsibility for the attack.

He informed NNI from an undisclosed location that the struggle for Balochistan’s freedom and establishment of an equal system will continue till victory.