Policeman gunned down in Quetta

Published March 30, 2008

QUETTA, March 29: A police constable was gunned down by unidentified men in the Shahbaz town area here on Saturday.

According to police sources, armed men riding motorcycles opened fire at Jamil Shah, a police constable, who was posted in the Sardar Police Station in the Shahbaz town area, when he was going to work.

He was seriously injured and taken to the civil hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The assailants after committing the crime disappeared from the scene.

Police have registered a case against unknown people and started investigation. No arrest was reported in this connection.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), Beebargh Baloch, claimed the responsibility of killing the policeman.

Calling from unknown place, he said the BLA was also behind the bomb attack on a house on Sabzal Road and blowing up of two power pylons of the Sibi-Harnai transmission line.

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