QUETTA, May 28: Seven bullet-riddled bodies were recovered on Monday from Quetta, Khuzdar and Dera Bugti areas.

“Three tortured bodies stuffed in a bag were found in the Ferozabad area of Quetta,” police said, adding that people of the area informed them about dumping of the bodies.

Police said that the hands of the deceased were tied to their back and they were blindfolded before being strangulated.

The bodies, identified as Mehran Khan Kiyazai, Mohammad Khan and Mohammad Nabi Marri, were taken to Bolan Medical College Hospital. After completing legal formalities, the bodies were handed over to their families.

Sources said that Mehran Khan, a resident of Browery Road area, was missing since April 11. Mohammad Khan Marri and Mohammad Nabi Marri, residents of Sariab, were brothers. They were missing for one month.

Another body, identified as that of Habibullah Nurzai, was found in the Pashtoonabad area. Two bodies were recovered from Dera Bugti. A spokesman for the Baloch Republican Party, Sher Mohammad Bugti, claimed that the bodies were dumped in the Pnhinain area of Dera Bugti district the other day.

He identified the deceased as Ali Khan Bugti and Wali Mohammad Bugti, who had been missing since March 12, 2005.

Sher Mohammad Bugti said that tortured marks were visible on both bodies.

Another body, which could not be identified so far, was recovered from Khuzdar.