Talks with family of children killed in Hoshab being held: Langov

Published October 15, 2021
Balochistan Home Minister Zia Ullah Langov addresses a press conference. — PPI/File
Balochistan Home Minister Zia Ullah Langov addresses a press conference. — PPI/File

QUETTA: Balochistan Home Minister Zia Ullah Langov has taken notice of the protest sit-in near the Red Zone area here by family members and their supporters with bodies of two children who were killed in a mortar shell blast four days ago and asked authorities concerned to hold talks with the protesters.

The protesters are demanding an impartial inquiry into the killing of the two children and injury to another child in a blast in Hoshab area of Turbat in Kech district four days ago.

Mr Langov said that talks were being held with relatives of the deceased children for resolution of the issue.

The sit-in by family members and supporters of the children killed in the Hoshab incident continued for the second day on Thursday.

Balochistan’s Levies Force claimed the children suffered critical injuries after a booby-trap device they were playing with exploded in the Hoshab area.

The injured children were taken to Turbat hospital, but two of them died on way to the hospital while the third was being treated at the hospital.

However, relatives of the deceased said the children were killed due to explosion of a mortar shell.

Published in Dawn, October 15th, 2021

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