QUETTA: Intruders killed two men in a house in Satellite Town here on Sunday night.

Police said that armed men barged into the house in Baloch Colony on Nasirabad road and opened fire on its inhabitants, killing two men.

“The duo received multiple bullet injuries and died on the spot,” a police official said. Police took the bodies to the Civil Hospital.

The deceased were identified as Inayatullah Raisani, an official of the Pakistan Post, and Mohammad Sharif Zehri.

The motive behind the double murder could not be ascertained.

Published in Dawn, January 23rd, 2017

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