Three people, including the Khuzdar chapter president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), were shot dead in violence in separate incidents on Friday.
PML-N Khuzdar president Haji Muhammad Alam Jattak was shot dead in the early hours of Friday when unidentified gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire at him.
“Jattak died on the spot,” a police official said, adding that the attackers had managed to escape. Police personnel and rescue teams immediately reached the location and shifted Jattak’s body to Civil Hospital Khuzdar.
The attack is believed to be an act of targeted killing and while no claim of responsibility has so far been made, police suspect that a separatist group may be behind the incident.’
Meanwhile, two people were killed and one other was injured in a firing incident in Quetta’s Pashtoonabad area on Friday.
Police official Imran Qureshi said that assailants on a motorbike opened fire at a police head constable in Mitha Chowk area of Pashtoonabad.
“The constable died on the spot,” Qureshi said, adding that two passersby also came in the range of firing and suffered bullet shots. They were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for treatment where one of them succumbed to his injuries.
