KHUZDAR: An elder belonging to Sasoli tribe was killed in a bomb blast in Kalat, Levies officials said here on Saturday.

They said that some unidentified people placed an explosive device on a roadside and detonated it by remote control when Mir Sarfaraz Sasoli, who was returning from his farm in Nimragh area of Kalat to his home on a motorcycle, was near it on Friday night. They said the elder received critical wounds in the blast and died on the spot.

Mir Sarfaraz was a brother of a Balochistan National Party-Mengal’s leader.

Soon after receiving information about the blast security personnel rushed to the area and shifted the body to the district hospital in Kalat.

Levies personnel were investigating the incident.

Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2018