Targeted killings: Two brothers, cousin shot dead in Kalat
Three members of a family, including a police constable and a Balochistan Levies official, were gunned down.
QUETTA:
Three members of a family, including a police constable and a Balochistan Levies official, were gunned down by unidentified assailants near a bus stop in Kalat, about 145 kilometres south of Quetta, on Friday. According to Kalat police, all the three victims, two of whom were brothers, were sitting inside a grocery shop when four armed men opened fire on them, killing the three on the spot and injuring another bystander. The assailants escaped from the scene of the crime. A heavy contingent of police reached the spot and took the bodies and the injured to a nearby hospital. Those killed were identified as police constable Kaleemullah, his brother Balochistan Levies head constable Hafizullah and their cousin Saifullah. The motive behind the killings could not be ascertained.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 1st, 2011.
Three members of a family, including a police constable and a Balochistan Levies official, were gunned down by unidentified assailants near a bus stop in Kalat, about 145 kilometres south of Quetta, on Friday. According to Kalat police, all the three victims, two of whom were brothers, were sitting inside a grocery shop when four armed men opened fire on them, killing the three on the spot and injuring another bystander. The assailants escaped from the scene of the crime. A heavy contingent of police reached the spot and took the bodies and the injured to a nearby hospital. Those killed were identified as police constable Kaleemullah, his brother Balochistan Levies head constable Hafizullah and their cousin Saifullah. The motive behind the killings could not be ascertained.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 1st, 2011.