Crime update: Five shot dead across Balochistan

QUETTA: As many as five people were killed in separate firing incidents in different towns of Balochistan on Tuesday. According to police, armed men opened indiscriminate fire near the Quetta-Ziarat Highway in Kuchlak area, killing one man identified as Muhammad Khan. In another incident in Sui Colony of Dera Bugti, unidentified armed men killed two people identified as Qadir Bakhsh and Ali Bakhsh. Officials said some old enmity was the motive behind the murders. Separately, another man identified as Muhammad Naseem was shot dead in Parum area of Panjgour district, while Muhammad Hafiz was gunned down in Khuzdar. Local administrations have registered separate cases and investigations are under way.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 18^th, 2013.