QUETTA, May 14: The bullet riddled beheaded body of the naib tehsildar of Sui, kidnapped at gunpoint on Saturday, was found in a village in the Nasirabad district on Sunday morning.

Official sources said the body of Shahzada Bugti was found near Goth Mir Hasan in the Chattar tehsil of Nasirabad.

“After shooting Shahzada Bugti to death, the kidnappers beheaded the body,” said Dera Bugti DCO Abdul Samad Lasi, adding that his security guard and driver were still missing.

According to official sources, Shahzada Bugti was on the way to Uch on Saturday to look into complaints in a dispute over lands of Kalpar Bugtis when armed men intercepted his vehicle and took him away along with his official security guard and driver.

Some people on Sunday morning informed the Dera Murad Jamali police that a beheaded body was lying near Goth Mir Hasan. Police rushed to the site and took the body to the civil hospital where it was identified as that of Shahzada Bugti.

No person or organisation has claimed responsibility for the murder. However, the DCO of Dera Bugti said the Sui police had registered a case against Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, his grandson, Baramdagh Bugti, Jamhoori Watan Party MPA Jumma Khan Bugti and nine other people.

The main gas plant in Pir Koh escaped damage on Sunday when a volley of rockets fired by armed tribesmen missed their target and landed safely away from the site, officials said here.

Armed tribesmen and security forces exchanged heavy gunfire in the Sangsilla area near Dera Bugti.