DERA MURAD JAMALI: Three members of a pro-government peace committee were killed in a gun attack on their camp in the Dashat-i-Goran area of Dera Bugti in the early hours of Sunday.

According to an official of the Levies Force, the peace committee members were sleeping inside the camp when some armed men carried out the attack at around 3am. He said the attackers used automatic weapons. The camp was led by peace committee leader Haroon Shambani Bugti.

The peace committee helps security forces maintain law and order in the area.

Official sources said that the unidentified attackers entered the camp and opened indiscriminate fire on the sleeping peace committee members, leaving three of them dead.

They said when two other members of the peace committee, who had remained unhurt, chased the fleeing attackers one of them stepped on a landmine planted by militants. The landmine exploded, leaving the two peace workers injured.

Soon after receiving information about the attack personnel of Frontier Corps, police and Levies rushed to the area and shifted the bodies and the injured to the Dera Bugti’s district hospital.

The official said the deceased were identified as Ghulam Sharif Shambani, Mir Bakhsh Shambani and Tahir Shambani. The bodies were handed over to their families after medico-legal formalities, he added.

The injured workers were identified as Rezakh Shambani Bugti and Hafizullah Shambani Bugti, he said.

Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2018