 Gunmen fired on three vehicles in Balochistan on Wednesday, killing a town nazim, his deputy and six other people in a family feud, The Associated Press reported.
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The vehicles were ambushed near Bhaag, a town about 200 kilometres southeast of Quetta, local police chief Gul Khan Sasoli said. The attack on Mohammed was the result of an old family feud, he said without elaborating. Bhaag Nazim Wali Mohammed, his deputy Allah Rakhiya, five bodyguards and one of the mayor's friends were killed instantly, Sasoli said. Two other friends of the mayor's were injured but survived. The gunmen attacked the vehicles from inside a security checkpoint before overpowering four policemen posted there and stealing their weapons, Sasoli said. |
