Unidentified men opened fire on the personnel deployed to secure a populated road. PHOTO: NASEEM JAMES/EXPRESS/FILE
QUETTA: A Frontier Corps soldier was gunned down in the main Chitkhan Bazaar area of Panjgur district on Thursday.
According to police, three FC personnel were deployed in the market and were walking when assailants gunned down one of the FC soldiers. The other two FC personnel tried to chase down the assailants but they managed to flee.
The deceased was identified as Sepoy Hamid Ali Shah. The FC has started a search operation to apprehend the culprits. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
Meanwhile, police found the decomposed body of an unidentified man from the industrial town of Hub on Thursday.
A senior police officer said they found the mutilated corpse after receiving a tip off that the corpse had been dumped in the bushes on the outskirts of Hub.
The corpse was transported to a government hospital in Hub for an autopsy. Police said the corpse was beyond recognition.
Separately, the bodies of a woman and a man were found dumped at the bank of canal near Dera Murad Jamali area of Naseerabad district on Thursday.
Official sources said police received information about the dumping of two bodies at the bank of a canal near Goth Fazla of Dera Murad Jamali. The police moved the corpses to the district hospital in Dera Murad Jamali,after taking a suspect into custody.
According to police sources, the woman was shot dead while the man was strangled to death. So far, the police could not identify the deceased.
Four suspected militants arrested
In Chaman, meanwhile the security forces arrested four suspects belonging to a banned militant outfit during a raid in the Mehmoodabad area of the town on Thursday.
A FC spokesman said that the FC personnel conducted a raid at a house on a tip-off and took the four suspects into custody.
All the four have been handed over to the concerned authorities for interrogation.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 25th, 2016.
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