QUETTA: A social worker and former in-charge of local Edhi Centre, Baz Mohammad, was shot dead with a friend in Mahajir Adha in Loralai on Saturday.

Police said that Mr Mohammad was mobilising the people for taking part in a protest against a recent terrorist attack on Frontier Corps (FC) training centre when armed men riding a motorcycle opened fire on his vehicle.

As a result Mr Mohammad was killed along with Khayal Mohammad while their four companions were injured.

Police said that they were attacked when their vehicle crossed the Police Line and Bacha Khan Chowk area. Both the deceased received multiple bullet injuries and died on the spot.

FC personnel and police rushed to the spot and shifted the body and the injured to the District Headquarters Hospital from where a critically injured man was referred to the Combined Military Hospital.

The injured included Allaud Din, Ali Khan and Atta Mohammad.

It was the third armed attack in Loralai since the advent of 2019. On Jan

1, four terrorists wearing suicide vests stormed Loralai Cantonment but were gunned down by soldiers before they could detonate their explosives. On Jan 11, armed men ambushed a FC vehicle near the local college injuring two soldiers.

Published in Dawn, January 13th, 2019