QUETTA: At least five people were killed and two other were injured firing incident in Pangur district of Balochistan.
Provincial Government spokesman Shahid Rind confirmed the incident and said that local people were shot dead who assigned on security duty of dam in Paroom tehsil of Panjgur.
According to the spokesman of the provincial government, five people were killed and two were injured as a result of firing by unknown armed men.
The spokesman said that the dead bodies of the deceased have been transferred to the teaching hospital in Panjgur and the investigation into the incident has been started.
President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the firing of armed men in Panjgur and expressed grief and sorrow over the loss of precious lives in the terrorist attack.
He expressed his condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the incident
President Zardari said that terrorists were enemies of the country’s development and prosperity of the province. He said that terrorists do not want to see Balochistan to develop.
The President prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured of the attack.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also condemned the attack that took place in the Paroom area of Panjgur district targeting the workers at a dam site, killing five of them.
The prime minister, in a statement issued by the PM Office, called for apprehending the perpetrators and taking them to task.
“The attackers of dam workers are the enemies of the development of Pakistan and Balochistan. There is no room for such miscreants in Pakistan. Through such cowardly acts, the miscreants cannot undermine the government’s resolve to uplift Balochistan,” he reiterated.
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The prime minister prayed to Allah Almighty for peace for the departed souls and early recovery of the injured, instructing the relevant authorities to extend the best possible medical treatment to the injured.
