QUETTA: Three bodies were found in Qamaruddin Karez area of Zhob district near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Sunday, police sources said.

“Area residents informed us about the bodies lying near village Killi Mariam. A police party shifted the bodies to a hospital,” the sources said.

They said names of the dead could not be ascertained till late into night.

According to some sources, the dead belonged to Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and they had been kidnapped before being shot dead.

Police were trying to identify the victims.