QUETTA: A convoy of six coal-laden vehicles en path to Punjab from Duki coal fields in Balochistan got here underneath a gun assault within the Sanjavi space of Ziarat on Tuesday night time, ensuing within the demise of a driver and inflicting accidents to a different.
The unknown assailants focused the convoy from close by mountains. Three drivers, nonetheless, remained lacking because the safety forces couldn’t hint their whereabouts following the assault.
Officers stated that the vehicles loaded with coal from Duki had reached the Baghao space of district Ziarat when unknown armed males perched on the close by mountains opened fireplace late Tuesday night time.
On account of firing a truck driver misplaced his life and one other received injured. “Within the armed assault the vehicles loaded with coal caught fireplace and have been fully gutted earlier than the safety power reached the spot,” Ziarat Deputy Commissioner Liaquat Ali Khan Kakar stated. Quickly after receiving details about the firing, safety forces rushed to the location and launched a search operation within the space to hint the armed males who have been concerned within the firing in Baghao.
“Three truck drivers have been lacking from the incident web site,” official sources stated, including that forces have been additionally looking the world for his or her restoration. Nonetheless, there was no details about their location until the submitting of this report. It was not the primary assault on coal-loaded vehicles within the space. Over two dozen vehicles carrying coal to Punjab by way of the identical route have been burnt in the course of the previous yr.
Revealed in Daybreak, Might twenty third, 2024