KHUZDAR: Police has registered a case of the incident in which 18 persons died when unknown gunmen attacked a mini petrol pump in District Khuzdar on Friday, Geo News reported.
According to police, complainant SHO Abdul Qadir has registered a case in the City Police Station against unknown culprits on the charges of murder, attempted murder and counter terrorism.
Investigations are underway following the clues but no arrest has been made so far in the case.
Eighteen people, including eight women and three children, were killed and four others were injured when unknown armed men attacked a petrol pump in Khuzdar on Friday, some 300 kilometres from the provincial capital.
Officials of the Khuzdar police said that some unidentified gunmen driving a car opened fire at the petrol pump when a passenger coach had stopped there to get fuel. Over 20 people were travelling in the passenger coach, which was going to Archino village from the Khuzdar city.
The armed men opened fire with modern weapons. Some of the bullets hit the petrol drums, which caused a huge fire engulfing the fuel station, the passenger van, two motorbikes and four neighbouring shops, DPO Khuzdar Faseehud Din told the media persons. Paramilitary troops and fire-fighters later extinguished the fire.
Police officials said that eight passengers were killed on the spot while a dozen others, including fuel station staff and passer-bys, were shifted to hospital for treatment, where 10 of them later succumbed to serious burn injuries.
The police were clueless about the attackers who fled from the scene after the incident. The bodies of the deceased were moved to the morgue of District Headquarters Hospital, Khuzdar, while the injured were admitted to the CMH Khuzdar for treatment.
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