QUETTA, Nov 21: Three labourers were gunned down in Turbat town in Kech district, while two bullet-riddled bodies of political activists were found in Naal area of Khuzdar district on Thursday.

Four men on two motorcycles went to an under-construction building in Satellite Town and opened indiscriminate fire on six labourers working there, sources said.

Two of them died on the spot while one was injured, who later died in hospital. The sources said the assailants managed to flee from the crime scene.

Turbat’s Assistant Commissioner Abdullah Khoso told Dawn that the victims were labourers constructing a private house in the Satellite Town when fired upon. They were identified as Inayatullah, Azizullah and Gul Zameen who hailed from Gilgit and Buner, he said. Official sources said Levies personal rushed to Groak area of Naal tehsil on a tip-off about the presence of two bullet-riddled bodies there.

The bodies were shifted to Khuzdar district hospital.

The dead were identified as Mir Muhammad Smalani and Phulan Smalani. They were activists of the Balochistan National Party.

The two had been missing since last one week.

“Both were hit in the head and the chest from a close range,” Levies officials said quoting hospital sources.

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