An explosives-laden truck was rammed into the main army camp in the Kanak area of Balochistan's Mastung district on Thursday, and local media reported that dozens of military personnel were killed, with senior officers among the dead. It was not possible to verify the toll: the military had issued no statement on the attack or the casualties, and security forces had cordoned off the area.
The blast was heard several kilometres away and shattered the windows of nearby houses, according to the accounts, which cited local sources and described the driver ramming the vehicle into the camp. One report described it as a suspected suicide truck bombing.
No group had claimed responsibility for the attack.
It was the latest in a week of escalating strikes on security forces in the province. At least two drones hit a military camp in the Khadkocha area of Mastung on Monday, with casualties among Pakistani personnel and damage to the facility reported. A security forces vehicle was destroyed in an improvised explosive device attack in the Marjan area of Kalat district. Armed men also stopped traffic and seized two commercial vehicles in the Nokchah area of Chagai, on the Quetta-Taftan highway, one of them reportedly carrying precious stones.
On November 8, the Baloch Republican Guards claimed its drone unit, called the Aamir Aero Guardians, struck a joint military and police camp in the Bagh area of Kachhi district, killing one personnel and injuring another. Its spokesperson, Dostain Baloch, said the group ambushed a military convoy in the Bolan area of Kachhi about two hours later with rockets and heavy weapons, killing four personnel and damaging vehicles.
(Compiled from media reports with the help of our in-house AI tools, and edited by our desk)