QUETTA: Two bullet-riddled bodies were found at the western bypass area of Sibi, 160km east of here on Friday.

Police shifted the bodies to Civil Hospital Sibi.

Quoting hospital sources, police identified the victims, aged between 18 and 29, as Iftikhar Mari and Riaz Ahmad.

“Marks of bullets were visible on their heads and chests which caused their death,” hospital sources said.

According to family sources, the two were labourers and had left home in the afternoon on a motorcycle. Their bodies were handed over to heirs after autopsy.

Meanwhile, armed men shot dead a man in Pashtoonabad area of the provincial capital.

He was identified as Obaidullah Achakzai.

The cause of the murder could not be ascertained. No arrest was reported till late in the evening.

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2014