Armed men kill two FC personnel

Published September 6, 2007

QUETTA, Sept 5: Two Frontier Corps personnel and a boy were killed when armed men opened fire on them at the Brewery road on Wednesday.

“The victims received multiple bullet injuries and died on the spot,” DIG Operations Rehmatallah Niazi said.

According to police sources, two FC personnel were patrolling the Brewery Road area on a motorbike when some men riding a motorcycle opened fire with automatic weapons, killing them and a young boy, who was passing by the area at the time of the incident. The assailants escaped after the incident.

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