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At least 11 people were shot dead by unknown assailants in two separate terror incidents in Nushki district of Balochistan, reports Geo News on Saturday.
Nine of the deceased, who belonged to Punjab, were travelling in a bus on the National Highway from Quetta to Taftan when they were stopped by the unknown militants, pulled out of the bus and abducted.
The police launched a search operation for the abductees, however, their bodies were found under the bridge near a hill. All of them had been shot dead.
The deceased belonged to the Mandi Bahauddin, Wazirabad and Gujranwala areas of Punjab. According to Nushki Superintendent of Police (SP) Allah Bukhsh, the deceased men were labourers.
Nushki Teaching Hospital MS Dr Zafar Mengal said the murdered men had been shot in various parts of their bodies.
In another incident, two people were gunned down while three others sustained injuries, said the police.
Nushki Deputy Commissioner Habibullah Musakhel said over a dozen militants blocked the Quetta-Nushki-Taftan N-40 National Highway at the hilly point of Sultan Chadhai, which is around 1 kilometre away from Nushki, on Friday night, The News reported.
Condemning the incident, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sought the report of the incident.
He also expressed condolences over the deaths and said that the terrorists and their facilitators will be brought to justice.
