By Aamir Latif
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Armed assailants stormed a police compound in southwestern Balochistan province on Tuesday injuring several people, including police officers, local media reported.
The attack on the compound which houses several police offices in Loralai district, located some 154 kilometers (95.69 miles) from provincial capital Quetta, occurred when scores of cadets were giving a test, local broadcaster Dunya News reported.
The site has been cordoned off as police and attackers engage in combat.
Ten people, including eight policemen, have reportedly been injured in the attack.
Last November, a similar attack on the Chinese Consulate in Karachi killed seven people, including three militants of separatist group Balochistan Liberation Army.
The large Balochistan province has been plagued by violence for over six decades with separatists claiming it was forcibly incorporated into Pakistan at the end of British rule in 1947.
The province is also a key route of China's billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative project which aims to connect China's strategically important northwestern Xinxiang province to Balochistan’s Gawadar port through a network of roads, railways and pipelines to transport cargo, oil and gas.
