QUETTA, March 10: Six members of a pro-government peace lashkar were killed in Phelawagh area of Dera Bugti district on Saturday night, officials said.

A district official said the lashkar men were going home from Sui town on motorcycles when gunmen intercepted them, killing them on the spot.

The assailants took away their weapons and motorcycles.

The bodies were shifted to a hospital in Sui by personnel of the Frontier Corps and Levies Force.

According to the post-mortem report, the lashkar men were shot at close range.

They bodies were handed over to the heirs after legal formalities.—Saleem Shahid