Security personnel frisk people on their entering for Friday prayer in Quetta. – Online Photo

QUETTA: Eight bullet-riddled bodies were recovered from Pasni, Hub and Mastung areas of Balochistan on Thursday and Friday.

Sources said that Levies Force was informed by people on Friday that two bodies were lying near the coastal highway.

The force personnel went to the area and took the bodies to the Pasni district hospital.

The deceased were identified as Sajid Baloch and Khalid Baloch, who were missing for the last few weeks.

Baloch National Movement sources claimed that both the men were members of their central committee.

The bodies were handed over to relatives after completing legal formalities.

The BNM has called a strike in Makran for Saturday.

Two bullet-riddled bodies were recovered on the outskirts of industrial town of Hub. Police took the bodies to the Hub civil hospital.

They were identified as those of Khalil Ahmed Mengal and Abdul Ghani Mengal of the Balochistan National Party (Mengal). The bodies were handed over to families.

Four bullet-riddled bodies were recovered from Mangi Doori area of Mastung on Thursday evening. They were identified as that of Mehmood Nasir, Hamid, Latif and Tariq Baloch.Levies Force sources said that Mehmood and Tariq were missing for the last two weeks and the two others were missing for some time. All the bodies bore bullet marks on the head and chest.

A spokesman for the Baloch Students Organisation (Azad) said that three of the four persons were its members while the fourth belonged to the Baloch Republican Party. All the four persons were buried in Mastung.

Sher Mohammad Bugti, a spokesman for the Baloch Republican Party condemned the killing of Baloch youth and alleged that the Baloch were being subjected to a genocide.

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