QUETTA: Four policemen were gunned down in two separate incidents in the city on Tuesday.

“The attacks took place with a brief interval,” Jaffar Zahoor Afridi, a senior police officer, said. “Police personnel were the target in both incidents,” he said.

Police sources said that armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on a car near the Keechi Beg area, resulting in the instant death of two police personnel.

The policemen, identified as Naeem Akhtar and Mohammad Fay­yaz, were coming from Sibi.

Soon after the incident, police and Frontier Corps personnel rushed to the site and took the bodies to the civil hospital.

In the second incident, armed motorcyclists attac­ked the vehicle of Shalkot SHO Javed Buzdar in Hazarganji on the outskirts of the provincial capital.

The SHO’s driver and guard died on the spot. “The deceased received bullet injuries in the upper parts of their bodies,” police said.

The driver has been identified as Mohammad Ali and guard as Ayub.

The SHO remained unhurt in the attack.

Published in Dawn, June 29th, 2016

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