Two killed in Turbat drive-by shooting


Shahzad Baloch May 26, 2010

QUETTA: Two persons were killed in a drive-by shooting in Turbat district of Balochistan on Wednesday, officials said.

Masked gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened indiscriminate fire at a barber shop located near the Gwadar bus terminal in Turbat Town, official sources said. As a result, the barber, identified as Hasnain Ali, died on the spot and a passerby received multiple bullet wounds. The attackers managed to escape before a police team arrived at the scene. Police rushed the injured to hospital where he expired during the course of treatment. “It is a case of targeted killing,” a senior police official told The Express Tribune. In other violence, an army soldier and a policeman were killed in two separate incidents in the districts of Khuzdar and Dera Murad Jamali.

Armed men intercepted a passenger van in the Zehri area of Khuzdar and asked Muhammad Hussain, a Pakistan Army soldier in civvies, to get off the vehicle. As soon as he alighted, the men shot him dead and fled the scene. Local authorities shifted the body to the Khuzdar divisional headquarters hospital for a post-mortem examination. Sources said Hussain was going to Khuzdar to rejoin his unit after spending his leave at home. “Hussain was killed over an old enmity,” a senior levies officer said.

However, he added that they were investigating the matter. Separately, gunmen shot dead a policeman near a bus terminal in Dera Murad Jamali on Wednesday morning. The motive behind Somar Khan’s murder could not be ascertained. However, police registered a case and started investigations.

Published in the Express Tribune, May 27th, 2010.

COMMENTS (6)

Balocheros | 14 years ago | Reply Qadeer Ahmed was third person killed by himself as a hand grenade exploded in his hand when he was placing that near Turbat Airport.B.L.F using untrained sympathizers and does not care for the lives of young Baloch. So misguiding Young Baloch to kill"Punjabies" in Balochistan..Do Baloches have a respect for Human rights?Innocent Lives? Everyone in Pakistan knowledges that Baloch have been deprived of the national wealth and rights..Is it not a pity that there is no one "GANDHI" among 10000s of SARMACHAR who shot & run away. THINK,WHO MAKES YOU THINK WHAT.?
Sunny | 14 years ago | Reply common so sad...people are being killed ...and balochs are discussing about writing skills...it is really pain full...i think whenever any settler shot dead you people get happy...... may be writer is also stun to see such comments which are irrelavant to the story
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