GWADAR: Four people were killed and one was injured in two firing incidents in Kech district, police said on Friday.

Official sources said a suspected armed man was killed in “an exchange of fire with security forces in Dashat area of Kech district”.

The Frontier Corps personnel raided a house in Dashat area on a tip-off and the gunman, identified as Jangyan, opened fire, triggering the shootout in which he was killed, they said.

Jangyan was allegedly involved in the attack on a Navy officer, Naghman Chaudhary, who came under fire in Kech area while returning back to Gwadar from Turbat.

Meanwhile, three men were killed and another was injured in a heavy exchange of fire with an armed group in Shahrak area of Kech district.

Official sources said that a group of four men was going to Turbat in a car when another gunmen opened fire on the vehicle near Gongi-Gaiykur area, killing three of them.

Two of the deceased were identified as Dost Mohammad and Abdul Rasool Irani. The injured was identified as Nasir.

“Three men killed in the firing belong to a drug traffickers’ gnag,” official sources told Dawn.