“Armed men surrounded Pashookan post of Pakistan coast guards near the town of Gwadar and gunned down seven soldiers,” local administration Chief Sohailur Rehman said on Saturday.
The gunmen, believed to be about a dozen, fled the scene on motorbikes and there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The attack came hours after two separate bomb blasts that killed at least 13 people, including five children and injured 27 others.
The first attack took place close to Pakistan’s northwest tribal city of Peshawar near the Afghan border, when a bomb went off just outside an army camp of an anti-Taliban commander and killed nine people.
In the second bomb attack, a remote-controlled device planted in a pick-up truck killed at least four people and injured seven others near the town of Dhog Darra in Upper Dir district.
Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001 when Pakistan joined an alliance with the United States in the so-called war against terrorism.
Since late 2009, there has been a surge in militant attacks in Pakistan and thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.
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