Four Punjab workers were shot dead by unknown assailants in the Kalat district of Baluchistan, while four police officers were similarly killed in the Noshki district on Saturday, according to the officials.
A statement by the Kalat Deputy Commissioner (DC), Captain Jamil Baloch, said that “the unknown assailants opened fire and killed four workers” in the Malangzai area of the city of Mangochar de Kalat around 2:30 pm
He said there was a survivor and that the five individuals, residents of Sadiqabad, were working as borewell drills. The DC added that the members of the members arrived at the site and the bodies were taken to the Rural Health Center Mande Haji for their medical examination.
“The investigation is underway and FIR (First Information Report) will be presented against those responsible,” said the DC.
No group has assumed the responsibility of the attack.
Meanwhile, Noshki Police Police Superintendent Hashim Khan Dawn.com That the armed men traveling on a motorcycle opened fire against a police mobile that patrol in the Garibabad area, martyred four police officers on the spot.
He said the bodies were transferred to a hospital and that the police had cordoned off the area with an ongoing search for the assailants.
President Asif Ali Zardari strongly condemned the attack and requested effective action against terrorist elements aimed at unarmed workers.
“Going to innocent and civil workers is a more brutal and condemnable act,” he said.
Pakistan radio He informed that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that those who attacked poor workers and workers were the “enemies of humanity” and resolved to eliminate all forms of terrorism in the country.
Baluchistan’s Prime Minister Sarfraz Bugti condemned attacks as a “brutal act of terrorism.”
“The blood of the martyrs will be explained and the anti-state elements are made an example of. Each conspiracy to interrupt the peace of Baluchistan will fail!” He said in an X publication.
Development occurs in the middle of a tense security situation that prevails in the province after the terrorist kidnapping last week of the Jaffar Express train in the Bolan district.
Last month, the unidentified gunmen killed seven people traveling to Punjab after downloading them from a passenger bus in the Barkhan district.
Baluchistan has witnessed a series of attacks aimed at those who came from Punjab. In two separate incidents in April 2024, nine people were killed after being forced to leave a bus near Noshki, while two Punjab workers were shot in Kech.
In May last year, seven Punjab barbers were shot dead near Gwadar, while August saw 23 travelers downloaded from trucks and bus and shot in the Musakhail district. In September, terrorists armed with automatic weapons broke into a construction house in the Khuda-Abadan area of the city of Panjgur and killed seven workers, all from fine.
In October 2023, unidentified armed men fatally fired six workers from Punjab in Tobat in the Kech district. According to the police, the murders were attacked. All victims belonged to different areas of southern Punjab, suggesting that they had been chosen by their ethnic origin.
In 2019, the gunmen stopped a bus near Ormara near the Gwadar district and shot 14 people, including the staff of the Navy, the Air Force and the guards of the coast, after checking their CNIC.
A similar incident occurred in 2015 when armed men killed 20 construction workers and wounded three others in a previous attack at dawn in a workers’ camp near Tobat. The victims belonged to Sindh and Punjab.
