Six troops, civilian martyred as clearance operation ends.

QUETTA -- A clearance operation that began when militants stormed an FC compound in Muslim Bagh town early on Friday morning completed on Saturday with all the six attackers eliminated and hostage families rescued.

The gunfight in Qila Saifullah district left six soldiers and a citizen martyred while another six people, including a woman, were injured (partly reported on Saturday).

Arms and ammunitions, used by the militants belonging to a new outfit 'Tehreek Jihad PakisAtan' in the attack, were seized.

During the hours-long shootout, the attackers slipped into the residential block and took some families of government employees and civilians hostage.

Hostage families rescued; all attackers belonging to 'Tehreek Jihad Pakistan' killed

Military's media affairs wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), while confirming the incident, in a statement said that the complex clearance operation involved a rescue operation as well to save three families from a residential block.

'The terrorists had not even spared children of their horrendous approach,' the ISPR said, adding that all six terrorists in the compound, who were well equipped, had been 'sent to hell'.

Necessary intelligence follow-up will continue to trace their linkages and arrest facilitators and expose their sponsors, it added.

Security forces, in step with the nation, remain determined to...