GWADAR: Two men died from thirst and hunger after they were stranded in the Koh Sabaz area of Panjgur district near the Pak-Iran border, official sources said on Tuesday.

They added that the two men, a labourer and a driver, went to a village near the Pak-Iran border in a pickup truck to purchase Iranian oil a few days ago. While returning they lost their way and their vehicle also developed some fault.

They said the water and foodstuffs the two men carried finished soon with no sign of habitation nearby. After spotting the two men in the uninhabited area, some passers-by informed the local administration about them.

The sources said after receiving information Levies Force personnel rushed to the area and shifted the two men to the district hospital. By the time one of the men had died. The other was alive but he was in a serious condition. He died during treatment in the hospital.

Quoting sources in the hospital, a Levies force officer told Dawn that the cause of death was dehydration.

The deceased were identified as Zahoor Ahmed and Sher Ali. Their bodies were handed over to relatives after completion of medico-legal formalities.

Meanwhile, a schoolteacher was gunned down in Shrak area near Turbat town.

Police said that the teacher was standing outside his home when men riding a motorcycle opened fire on him.

The teacher, identified as Mohammad Yaqoob, received multiple bullet wounds and died on the spot.

His body was shifted to the hospital for a post-mortem and later handed over to the victim’s relatives.

The cause of the killing could not be known immediately.

Published in Dawn, June 7th, 2017