Three people including a woman were killed in the name of honour in Mastung and Jaffarabad towns of Balochistan in two separate incidents while a government school teacher was gunned down in Quetta on Wednesday. In the first incident, unidentified gunmen killed a woman and her alleged paramour in Mastung, and fled.
Police moved the bodies to the hospital and termed the incident honour killing. However the names of victims could not be ascertained immediately. In the second incident, unidentified armed men opened fire on Hazar Khan and managed to flee. As a result, he received critical wounds and died on the spot. Police said it could be an incident of honour killing, however, investigations were underway to establish the true cause of killing.
In yet another incident, some unidentified men gunned down a school teacher Mohammad Munzoor Mohammad Hasani in Killi Faizabad in the Sariab area on Wednesday.
