QUETTA: Hours after the lethal assault, greater than 20 labourers have been “kidnapped” by armed males in Musakhel, police mentioned on Sunday.
As per the police, gunmen opened hearth on the camp of the labourers working for a gasoline firm, set ablaze eight bulldozers and took away over 20 labourers with them.
Police detailed that the labourers have been residing in a home within the district’s Khuda-e-Abadan space, the place the incident occurred and left seven folks useless and one wounded.
The incident comes hours after seven labourers have been shot useless by unidentified gunmen in a home within the province’s Panjgur district.
The Panjgur deputy commissioner additionally confirmed the ugly incident and mentioned that the attackers barged into the home and opened hearth on the residents.
Police officers instructed the media individuals that the deceased and injured individuals have been shifted to Panjgur District Hospital. In the meantime, a search operation has been launched to trace down the perpetrators of the brutal assault.
Each the Musakhel and Panjgur incidents replicate the safety challenges confronted by the province which has witnessed the brunt of terrorist assaults, together with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, amid the rise in terrorist incidents confronted by the nation in current months.
Final month, 23 passengers have been killed after being offloaded from buses and vans within the Rarasham space of Muskhel district.
In keeping with the Centre for Analysis and Safety Research (CRSS) report, throughout the second quarter of the present yr, the nation witnessed 380 violence-linked fatalities and 220 accidents amongst civilians, safety personnel, and outlaws.
In the meantime, condemning the Panjgur incident, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have expressed sorrow and have supplied condolences to the bereaved households.
“Focusing on harmless labourers and residents is a really brutal and reprehensible act,” mentioned President Zardari.
Whereas, PM Shehbaz has reiterated the federal government’s resolve to “root out all types of terrorism” from the nation.