QUETTA, Dec 4: Asif Baloch, a younger brother of provincial Finance Minister Mir Asim Kurd, was seriously injured when armed men opened fire at him in Panjgur on Tuesday.

Police sources said the assailants came on a motorbike and intercepted Mr Baloch, a deputy superintendent in Customs, when he was going to the Customs House.

He offered resistance on which the gunmen opened fire on him, leaving him seriously injured.

Soon after the incident police and Customs officials went to the area and took him to a private hospital.

Mr Kurd also rushed to Panjgur in the chief minister’s plane and shifted his brother to Karachi in the evening.

Hospital sources said that Mr Baloch was hit by four bullets.

Panjgur DPO Jamil Ahmed Bajoi said the attackers had been identified and they would be brought to justice soon. He said law-enforcement personnel had been conducting raids for their arrest.