GWADAR: Six people were shot dead in an attack on a house in Bonistan area of Panjgur district on Wednesday night.

“Victims were invited to a dinner and were sitting at the guest house when armed men barged into the room and sprayed them with bullets,” a police official said.

The attackers who came on motorbikes fled.

Police and personnel of other law-enforcement agencies reached the scene of the attack and shifted bodies to the district hospital Panjgur.

“The cause of killing was not known so far,” police officials said, adding that investigation was in progress.

Six persons killed in the attack were identified as Muhammad Ismail, Noor Shoaib, Muhammad Nazar, Momin Ghulam Jan and Islamil.

Published in Dawn, February 11th, 2016