Five bodies found in Kech district

Published December 9, 2020
Three persons whose bodies were found in Tump had been killed in a gun battle with security forces, say Levies officials. — Photo provided by Syed Ali Shah/File
Three persons whose bodies were found in Tump had been killed in a gun battle with security forces, say Levies officials. — Photo provided by Syed Ali Shah/File

GWADAR: The Levies Force on Tuesday found five bullet-riddled bodies from two different places in Kech district of Makran division.

Levies officials said three of the bodies were recovered from an area of Tump, a town close to the Iran border situated some 120km south-west of district headquarters Turbat. The two other bodies were found under Heroik Bridge in the Hoshab area.

They said the three persons whose bodies were found in Tump had been killed in a gun battle with security forces. The bodies were taken to the District Hospital in Turbat. Two of them have been identified as Mukhtiar Noor Hussain and Aziz, who were residents of Malikabad Tump of Kech district. The third body could not be identified.

Published in Dawn, December 9th, 2020

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