QUETTA, Dec 28: Three people were killed on Thursday when gunmen opened fire on a Karachi-bound trailer near Wadh town in Khuzdar district, some 400km from here. According to police sources, a trailer coming from Quetta was on its way to Karachi. When it reached near Wadh armed men started firing. As a result, three people, including the driver of the trailer, were killed.
“All the three persons died on the spot,” said Wadh DSP Mohammad Aslam while confirming the incident.
Soon after receiving information about the incident police rushed to the site along with personnel of other law-enforcement agencies.
The bodies of the deceased brought to the Civil Hospital of Wadh where police identified them as Mohammad Ashraf, Mohammad Farooq and Mohammad Sharif. All victims of the firing belonged to Mainwali. After completing legal formalities the bodies were dispatched to their native town.
After the incident, the local administration has sent more personnel of law-enforcement agencies to the area who started a search operation.
However, no arrest was reported so far, police said.
Meanwhile, a woman was killed and her son seriously injured when a speedy vehicle coming from Karachi hit a motorcycle in Khuzdar town late Thursday evening.
The woman died on the spot while the injured identified as Mohammad Sharif was admitted to the Civil Hospital, Khuzdar.
Police arrested Syed Saifullah, driver of the vehicle, from Baghbana after chasing him 30km on the RCD Highway.
DRUGS-FREE: Balochistan will be declared a drugs-free province by 2007.
This was decided in a meeting presided over by Chief Secretary K.B. Rind.
Officials decided that poppy cultivation would be discouraged in the province and strict action would be taken against people involved in poppy growing.
However, participants of the meeting observed that because of strict measures taken by the government, poppy cultivation had been reduced while a huge quantity of poppy had been destroyed during the drive launched by the ANF with the help of the Frontier Corps and other authorities concerned.
The district coordination officers (DCOs) of various districts who attended that meeting were told to collect information about poppy cultivation in their respective areas and inform ANF and other authorities for launching a similar drive in Karachi.
The Regional Director of ANF Balochistan Brig Anwarul Haq briefed the meeting about the ANF campaigns during the past three years and said that they had been ‘very successful’, adding that the ANF had destroyed poppy crop cultivated over several thousands of acres.
