Two BNP-Mengal activists killed in Khuzdar
BNP-M activists Akbar Mosiani and Javed Baloch have been killed in separate incidents of firing.
KHUZDAR (Online) - Armed gunmen on Tuesday killed two activists of the Balochistan National Party - Mengal in Khuzdar town of the southwestern province.
According to police, some unidentified armed gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at the vehicle of Ali Akbar Mosiani, a district leader of BNP-M, in Khuzdar bazaar.
Mosiani was killed on the spot, police said, adding that the gunmen managed to escape from the spot. Moreover, only half an hour after Mosiani s killing, armed gunmen shot dead another BNP-M activist, Javed Baloch.
Baloch suffered serious wounds as result of firing and succumbed to his injuries on way to hospital.
Condemning the killings of party workers, BNP-M central leader Rauf Mengal announced a three-day-mourning across Balochistan.
He said his party’s workers were being targeted as part of a conspiracy. Panic prevailed among the people in the aftermath of killings of BNP-M activists.
Levies and police personnel were deployed in all sensitive areas of the town to avoid the occurrence of another untoward incident.
