Two people, including a member of the Hazara community, were killed in Quetta and Kechh districts, while a dead body was found in Kalat district of Balochistan on Thursday. Police officials said Amir Mohammad, member of Hazara shia community, was passing from Killi Chakar Khan of Sariab in the outskirts of Quetta when armed men opened indiscriminate fire on him. As a result, he sustained critical wounds and died before being taken to the hospital.
Police attributed the murder to sectarian killings, adding that police were raiding different localities for arresting the culprits. In another incident, armed men gunned down a man in Mand town of Kechh district near the Iranian border. Levies sources said that unidentified assailants shot dead a person identified as Muslim and fled from the scene. Meanwhile, Levies Force personnel recovered a dead body from Kalat district, some 160kms southeast of Quetta. The report said the body was found in Shakari area of Kalat which was spotted by passers-by who informed the Levies Force. The body identified as Rahib, resident of Dera Allayar of Jaffarabad district.
