Sardar Taj Mohammad Gamshad Zai was on his way home from Taftan Bazaar on the country’s border with Iran.
Assistant Commissioner Taftan Sayed Mureed Shah said the assailants were riding a pick-up.
Shah confirmed that three guards of Sardar Taj Mohammad were injured in the attack.
According to eyewitnesses, the attackers fled towards Iran after the incident.
Meanwhile, a bullet-riddled body was recovered from Balochistan’s restive district of Dera Bugti on Friday.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 9th, 2013.
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