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Suicide truck bomb kills dozens at Gwadar-area Coast Guard camp
The Sunday Guardian
|July 05, 2026
Balochistan Liberation Army claims responsibility even as Pakistan has not confirmed.
A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into a Pakistan Coast Guard camp in the Panwan area of Jiwani on Friday evening killing more than 30 personnel.
Claiming responsibility for the attack which levelled the fortified facility, a BLA spokesperson said the group's Majeed Brigade carried out the bombing around 6:30 PM local time, after which fighters from its Fateh Squad moved through the wreckage to engage survivors.
Pakistani authorities have not confirmed the casualty toll, and the final number may differ substantially from the BLA’s claim.
Still, the attack occurred inside Gwadar’s own district, home to the Chinese-backed deep-water port that anchors the $62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and it is the latest in a string of escalating strikes on the infrastructure built to protect that project. Strip away the press releases and the ribbon-cuttings, and what Friday’s bombing exposes is a pattern critics have warned about for years: a port whose security apparatus keeps getting outpaced by the insurgency it was built to contain.
This story is from the July 05, 2026 edition of The Sunday Guardian.
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