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Festivities continue over Akbar Bugti's death |
2006-08-29 |
![]() A barber from Punjab province was killed when protesters attacked his shop in a small town, police said. Nine people were wounded in an exchange of fire with police elsewhere. "Violence has continued throughout the province, especially in Baloch-populated areas. Protesters have burnt government offices, shops and vehicles," provincial interior minister Shoaib Nausherwani said. "We're trying to control the situation peacefully but there have been clashes," he said. Raziq Bugti, the spokesman of the Balochistan provincial government, said that rescue workers were trying to dig out the body of Bugti, 79, from the rubble. "The work has to be done very carefully because there is a fear of explosives in the cave, which collapsed when insurgents hiding in it attacked the security personnel who went inside to ask them to surrender," he told Gulf News over telephone from Quetta. However, we have sent heavy machines including bulldozers to remove the debris, he said. |
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