QUETTA: Pakistani paramilitary forces Monday killed five members of a militant outfit notorious for sectarian attacks and linked to the IS group, officials said.
Frontier Corps troops stormed a compound in the southwestern province of Balochistan and killed them in a gunfight, paramilitary spokesman Khan Wasay told AFP.
The militants belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), which works both with IS and Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, he said.
Provincial home secretary Akbar Harifal confirmed the details of the clash in the village of Huramzai in Pashin district, 35 kilometres (21 miles) north of the provincial capital Quetta.
In August a suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital claimed by the IS group and the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar wing of the Pakistani Taliban killed 73 people, including many of the city´s lawyer community. They had gone there to mourn the fatal shooting of a colleague.
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