GWADAR: Levies personnel found three bullet-riddled bodies at a desolated place in the Tump area of Kech district on Monday.

Local people informed the administration about the presence of the bodies which then were shifted to the District Hospital Turbat.

The bodies were identified as those of Irshad, Waleed and Amir, officials said. They quoted hospital sources as saying the three were fired upon at close range.

The cause of the killings could not be known.

Levies were investigating the case.

Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2017

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