QUETTA, March 26: Six bodies were found in Dera Bugti district on Saturday, Levies Force sources said.

“The Levies Force received information that six bullet-riddled bodies were lying in different areas of the district,” a district administration official told Dawn.

Four of the victims were identified, he said.Baloch Republican Party (BRP) spokesman Shair Mohammad Bugti told the media that the six victims had been missing for four to eight weeks.

He said one of the bodies had been identified as that of Khodil Bugti, who was the organiser of Baloch Republican Students Organisation, and another was that of his father Ali Bakhsh.

Levies Force sources identified another dead as Shah Mohammad Bugti.

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