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A shootout in Pakistan’s southwestern Quetta city on Sunday evening left two police officers and two militants dead, officials said.
The incident occurred around sunset when two gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire, killing two traffic police.
Officers on patrol nearby heard the gunshots and rushed to the scene.
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“They engaged the attackers in firing and killed them on the spot,” Abdul Razaq Cheema, a senior police official in the city, told AFP.
He said that another militant on a separate motorcycle was wounded in the clashes before fleeing.
Ghulam Ali Baoch, home secretary of Balochistan province of which Quetta is capital, confirmed the incident and announced a reward of one million rupees ($8,644) for any information on the militants.
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No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Islamist militants and separatist groups have waged violence in mineral-rich Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, for more than a decade.
Balochistan is the largest of Pakistan’s four provinces but its roughly seven million people have long argued they do not get a fair share of its vast gas and mineral wealth.
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