Balochistan violence: Missing brothers found dead

The killing raised the death toll from a shooting incident the night before to five.

QUETTA: The bodies of two missing brothers, Syed Zahid and Syed Mashriq, were found in Mach on Friday morning, raising the death toll from a shooting incident the night before to five. According to Balochistan Levies official Asadullah, the bodies were recovered from the same area where three people were gunned down on Thursday night. More than 20 armed men had attacked two passenger coaches on their way from Quetta to Lahore.  The armed men checked the CNICs of the passengers and shot three people on the spot, kidnapping the brothers. Their bodies have been shifted to Quetta for an autopsy. Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) deputy parliamentary leader in the Balochistan Assembly Ali Madad Jatak condemned the murders.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22^nd, 2012.