QUETTA: Unidentified militants have gunned down 11 persons, including nine passengers from Punjab, in two separate terror incidents in Nushki district of Balochistan.
Nine of the deceased, who belonged to Punjab, were travelling in a bus on the National Highway from Quetta to Taftan when they were stopped by the unknown militants, they checked the CNICs of the passengers and abducted nine persons who had the address of Punjab.
however, their bodies were found under the bridge near a hill. All of them had been shot dead.
The murdered men belonged to Mandi Bahauddin, Wazirabad and Gujranwala. Nushki SP Allah Bukhsh said they were labourers who had boarded the bus for Taftan from Quetta.
In another incident, two people were gunned down while three others sustained injuries.
According to the Nushki Deputy Commissioner Habibullah Musakhel ,on Friday night, more than a dozen militants blocked the Quetta-Nushki-Taftan N-40 National Highway at the hilly point of Sultan Chadhai around one kilometer away from Nushki.
The armed men started checking the vehicles after blocking the highway and opened fire on a vehicle that did not stop, the deputy commissioner said, adding that the driver of the vehicle was the brother of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Balochistan MPA Ghulam Dastgir Badini.
As a result of the firing, a tyre burst and the car overturned, due to which a relative of the MPA in the car was killed and four others were injured. One of the injured men later succumbed to his injuries at a hospital.
Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti condemned the killing of 11 people, saying that the terrorists involved in the incident will not be pardoned.
