Five dead in Kech car ambush

QUETTA: Unidentified assailants ambushed a car in Kech district and killed all five of its passengers on Monday morning, security officials said.

Mohammad Rizwan Baloch, an official of the Balochistan Levies at the Turbat Levies station, told The Express Tribune that the five men were travelling in their vehicle to Mand in Kech near the Pakistan-Iran border when unidentified men opened fire on them near the river in Mand.

The assailants did not stop there. “They threw the bodies out of the car and set the vehicle on fire,” Baloch said, adding that the assailants managed to escape.

The victims were identified as Kareem, Qayum, Nadir, Ameen and Moeed. They were residents of Mand.

The Balochistan Levies said that the relatives of the victims do not have suspicions on who could be behind the attack professing that they do not have any enmity with any one.

The motive for the attack is unknown. It is unclear whether a militant group was behind the attack since no group claimed responsibility.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 24^th, 2016.