A man was gunned down in the provincial capital on Thursday, while two others, including a manager of a motorcycle company, were kidnapped from Hub town of Balochistan. According to police, unidentified armed motorcyclists opened fire on a man at Baloch Khan Chowk in the Pakhtunabad area of Quetta. As a result, he sustained critical wounds and succumbed to his injuries while being taken to Civil Hospital.
The assailants fled from the scene. The deceased was identified as Siddiqullah. Police said the deceased was an Afghan national and a rickshaw driver, adding that the motive behind his murder was not yet clear. Police registered a case against unidentified people and started investigations. Meanwhile, unidentified men kidnapped the manger of a motorcycle company and his driver from Hub, an industrial town in Balochistan. Police said the manager, Hanif Asfahani, was on his way along with his driver Nawaz in Hub when armed men intercepted them, and kidnapped them. Police started investigation into the incident.