Mastung: One Balochistan Constabulary officer was martyred and three others suffered injuries on Friday when unidentified people opened fire on their vehicle on National Highway in the Mastung district, provincial government spokesperson Shahid Rind said.
“According to initial reports, the acting deputy superintendent of police’s (DSP) vehicle was targeted,” the spokesperson Rind said in a statement.
The assailants opened fire on the vehicle near the Choto area of Mastung on the National Highway, the statement elaborated.
Rind stated that “a search operation is underway to apprehend the assailants, and security forces have been dispatched to the site of the attack”.
The injured officers were immediately rushed to Shaheed Nawab Ghaus Bakhsh Hospital in Quetta, he added.
