QUETTA, May 1 A firing incident in the coastal town of Pasni on Saturday claimed the lives of three people, a father and a son among them.

According to police sources, Mir Asa, his son and two other relatives were travelling in a pick-up when unidentified people opened fire on them near a small river.

Mir Asa, son Dad Mohammad and relative Abdul Rehman died on the spot. Dad Bakhsh was injured.

After receiving information, police rushed to the site and took the bodies and the injured to Pasni civil hospital.

Police said the cause of the attack was Mir Asa's old enmity with his opponents over a land dispute.

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