As many as 10 labourers were killed and another four
sustained injuries in
the Dasht area of Mastung
District of Balochistan
on September 13 after
unidentified assailants
opened fire on them,
reports Daily Times.
Mastung Deputy Commissioner
(DC) Irfan Shah said
that 15 persons were
working on the RCD Highway
when unidentified men
opened fire on them.
Sources said that the
contractor had not informed
the administration about
the construction in
spite of volatile security
situation in the District.
Birat Khan, a survivor,
said that they were
working on the road
when some two unidentified
men riding a motorcycle
approached, lined up
the labourers and opened
fire on them from a
point-blank range. “They
searched them and queued
them up and opened fire
on them, killing most
of them on the spot,”
he said. All victims
were the residents of
the Sumangli Road area
of Quetta. The Baloch
United Liberation Army
(BULA) claimed responsibility
for the killings. BULA
spokesman Mureed Baloch
phoned a news agency
and claimed the responsibility.
Separately, unidentified armed assailants shot dead a
tribal elder, Mir Saeed
Ahmed Qalandarani, and
his five guards at Tutak
area of Khuzdar District.
According to Levies
officials, tribal leader
Mir Saeed Ahmed Qalandarani
was on his way after
attending a jirga
in Binap area when armed
men at Tutak area. The
deceased guards were
identified as Hafeezur
Rehman, Nasrullah, Qadir
Bakhsh, Abdul Hameed
and Muhammad Jan.
Meanwhile, unidentified militants attacked the Balochistan
Frontier Corps (FC)
camp with rockets in
Buleda area of Kech
District. However, no
loss of life or damage
to property was reported.
Sources said that two
of the rockets did not
explode and were later
defused.
Elsewhere, at least two NATO containers were attacked
and set on fire by unidentified
miscreants in Dasht
Area of Mastung District.
According to sources,
unidentified armed men
attacked the two NATO
containers, which were
coming from Karachi
and en route to Afghanistan,
when they reached Dasht
Area of Mastung District,
and set them on fire,
however, no casualty
was reported. |
