QUETTA: A central leader of the BNP-M, Mir Noor-ud-din Mengal, was gunned down by unknown armed men in the Kalat town on Wednesday.

Mengal was a member of the central executive committee of his party.

Sources said that Mengal was on his way home when unknown armed men riding a motorcycle opened indiscriminate fire at him.

He succumbed to his injuries on his way to a hospital in Quetta. After firing both the assailants managed to escape from the scene.