- Two killed, seven injured in Quetta rival groups clash
PANJGUR/QUETTA: Unidentified assailants attacked the convoy of Balochistan Health Minister Rehmat Saleh Baloch in Panjgur town on Thursday, officials said, with the minister and his aides remaining unharmed in the incident.
The minister, who belongs to National Party, was targeted while he was travelling to Prom area from Panjgur, Assistant Commissioner Panjgur Abdul Jabbar said.
Sources said that Rehmat Baloch was going to address a public meeting in his constituency in Panjgur. Levies sources revealed the militants used various weapons, including rockets, in the attack. However, the assailants escaped the scene when Levies personnel opened retaliatory fire.
Upon receiving reports of the incident, Levies and Frontier Corps (FC) officials sealed the area and started a search operation.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack as of yet.
Meanwhile, two persons, including a father and son, were killed and seven others injured in an armed clash between two rival groups in Quetta on Thursday.
Police said that armed miscreants of two groups, which were in an old rivalry, traded fire at Jinnah Road in the provincial capital Quetta.
In the cross firing, two people were killed on the spot while seven others were seriously wounded.
The bodies and injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta, where the condition of two injured people was stated to be serious.
The police arrested brother of MPA Naseer Kakar, along with his seven accomplices, and after registering a case against them at Civil Lines police station have started the investigation.
