QUETTA:
Armed men killed three persons, including two women, near the Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan’s Zhob district on Thursday morning.
Levies sources told media outlets that assailants opened indiscriminate fire at a vehicle in Zhob’s Qamaruddin Karez area. Subsequently, three persons, including two women, of the same family were killed in the attack.
The family was going from Sambaza to Gul Kach when they were fired upon near the border.
The assailants escaped unhurt from the spot.
Levies personnel reached the spot and started an investigation into the incident. The motive behind the incident could not be ascertained.
The casualties were rushed to Civil Hospital Zhob for a postmortem.
Zhob is considered to be a sensitive district.
