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Dozens of soldiers, armed attackers who were killed in southwestern Pakistan violence Conflict news

The unknown fighters are said to shoot a vehicle carrying a semi -military vertebrate vertebrate attempt to dismantle the road barrier.

At least 18 paramilitary soldiers and more than 20 armed attackers were killed in separate accidents throughout 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 in the comfortable Baluchistan Province, and most of the deaths occurred as the security forces were removed.

A police officer told the news agency to Agence France -Presse, the conditions for anonymity occurred that a vehicle “carries an unarmed deficit in the unarmed border” near the town of Mangar “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.

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

It was not immediately clear the armed group to which the fighters belong. No one has yet demanded his responsibility for the attack.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shibaz Sharif condemned the attack.

Metal -rich Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, was a scene of a decade -old rebellion by separatist ethnic Baloch groups. Several armed groups also work there.

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

At least six people were killed earlier this month in an attack demanding the Liberation Army in Baluchistan (BLA), one of the main separatist groups. In November, BLA also claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks that claimed the lives of at least 39 people, one of the highest drawings in the region.

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.

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