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Bolan: Mach carnage case registered
MACH: Police on Wednesday registered the case of killings of thirteen passengers in Mach area of District Bolan that took place early on Tuesday, Geo News reported.
Assistant Commissioner Mach, Kashif Nabi told that the case was registered in Levies police station against unknown culprits on the complaint of Mach tehsildar, Zubair Ahmed Kurd under the sections of kidnapping, murder, anti terrorism. However, no arrest has been made so far.
It is pertinent to mention here that gunmen in police uniform killed 13 passengers, who were going to their hometowns in the Punjab from Quetta ahead of Eidul Fitr on Tuesday.
The bloody incident took place in the Gashtari area of Mach in the wee hours of Tuesday when dozens of armed men in police uniforms attacked the Punjab-bound passenger coaches.
Eyewitnesses said that some 200 armed men in police uniforms intercepted two passenger coaches and some of them barged into the vehicles and asked the passengers for their identity cards. Later, they segregated 13 passengers belonging to the Punjab and forced them to come out of the coaches.
Independent sources said that the attackers took away 22 people, including 15 passengers and seven sepoys of Levies force, a sort of tribal police. Later, the assailants dropped the seven policemen and two passengers because they were locals and belonged to different Baloch tribes.
Sources told that a paramilitary soldier tried to sneak away but was killed by the gunmen.
The deceased belonged to Sadiqabad, Rahimyar Khan, Faisalabad and Muzzafargarh districts. The bodies of 10 victims were shifted to the morgue of the Civil Hospital, Quetta, for identification.
Some of the deceased were identified as Muhammad Shakeel, Muhammad Akhtar, Abdul Malik, Muhammad Ashraf, Saqib Waqar, Ghulam Chishti, Muhammad Sagheer, Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Arshad while the names of others are yet to be confirmed.
The banned outfit Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the Bolan incident.
Courtesy www.geo.tv