10 injured as passenger coach targeted by gunfire in Balochistan’s Kalat
KALAT: A passenger coach travelling from Karachi to Quetta came under gunfire near a checkpost in Kalat, injuring at least 10 individuals, police confirmed on Wednesday.
SHO Kalat Habibullah told Geo News that the attack occurred as the coach approached a checkpoint in the area. The vehicles that run on this route carry approximately 40 to 50 passengers. However, the exact number of passengers on board the targeted bus remains unknown.
Some of those injured are in critical condition and were immediately transported to the district hospital for treatment. Law enforcement personnel reached the scene shortly after the incident.
The attack came days after at least nine passengers travelling on two Punjab-bound coaches were abducted and killed by unidentified armed men in Sur-Dakai area, on the border between Balochistan’s Zhob and Loralai districts.
Assistant Commissioner Zhob, Naveed Alam, said the attackers opened fire on the abducted passengers after taking them away from the vehicles, adding that the bodies were being transported to Rakhni for dispatch to their native towns in Punjab.
Shahid Rind, the Balochistan government’s spokesperson, said that Fitna al Hindustan — a term used for terrorist organisations in Balochistan — had carried out the attacks.
Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti declared that the killers of innocent civilians were not worthy of any mercy. “Those who murder innocent people will be hunted to the last man,” the chief minister said.
This is a developing story and is being updated with further details.
