Police retrieved the bodies and took the injured to Civil Hospital Kalat. There one of the injured, the owner of the shop, died. - File Photo

QUETTA: Three men, among them two security personnel, were shot dead in Kalat town, some 145km southeast of here, on Friday.

Sources said that two personnel of Balochistan Levies Force were sitting at a shop near a bus stand when armed men riding motorcycles opened fire on them.

Security personnel Hafeezullah and Kaleemullah, who were brothers, were killed and two other people injured.

Police retrieved the bodies and took the injured to Civil Hospital Kalat. There one of the injured, the owner of the shop, died.

“Six armed men riding three motorcycles targeted the security personnel,” police sources said, adding that after committing the crime the attackers managed to flee.—Saleem Shahid

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