Pakistan: Army captain martyred, 2 soldiers injured in Balochistan IED attack

ISLAMABAD, 23 August 2021, (TON): The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said in a statement that a captain of the Pakistan Army was martyred while two other soldiers got injured as their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) in Tobo, Balochistan.

the military's media wing stated "Security Forces vehicle struck an IED planted by terrorists in Tobo, Gichik Balochistan. Resultantly Capt Kashif embraced shahadat while 2 soldiers got injured."

The communique further added that "Injured soldiers have been evacuated to medical facility at Khuzdar."

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa, among other senior military officials, people from various walks of life and relatives of the martyr offered his funeral prayer in Rawalpindi later in the day.

Captain Kashif Shaheed was buried will full military honour, the ISPR said in a separate statement.

Separately, the military's media wing said that a terrorist was killed in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Boya area of North Waziristan.

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