ISLAMABAD, April 12 (Xinhua) -- A 52-percent drop has been witnessed in violent fatalities in Pakistan during the first quarter of 2018 as compared to the same period last year, local media reported Thursday.

According to data compiled by the country's Center for Research and Security Studies, a total of 283 people have been killed in separate violent incidents in different parts of Pakistan during January-March 2018, as compared to 592 violent fatalities during the same period in 2017, the local newspaper Express Tribune said.

A total of 217 people have been injured in separate violent incidents during the first quarter of this year.

This year three provinces of the country including Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan showed decline in violent killings, but in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a slight increase in such fatalities was witnessed.

So far this year, Balochistan led the list of the violent facilities with 77 killings, followed by Sindh with 69 killings. Punjab witnessed 54 fatalities whereas 42 people were killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between January to March 2018.

A total of 82 militants and 74 security personnel were also killed in the first quarter of 2018. The killed security personnel included 38 policemen, 22 army personnel, eight officials of the Frontier Corps, three Rangers, and a Levies official.

Proscribed organization Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed most of the attacks during the first quarter of the year.