Sessions judge, guard shot dead in attack on way to Mastung
A district and sessions judge and his guard were killed in an armed attack near Mastung on Thursday, while an additional sessions judge was among two people injured. Officials said the victims were travelling from Quetta when gunmen targeted their vehicles.
QUETTA: District and Sessions Judge Abdul Hakeem Kakar and his security guard were killed when gunmen attacked their vehicles at Wali Khan crossing while they were travelling from Quetta to Mastung on Thursday, according to Balochistan Home Department aide Babar Yousafzai.
Yousafzai said Additional Sessions Judge Tariq Lashari was also among two people injured in the attack. He said the assailants were unidentified and that the wounded were shifted to a hospital in Mastung for treatment.
The officials were on their way to Mastung when the firing took place. Judge Kakar and his guard died at the scene, while Lashari and another injured person survived the assault.
The attack came a day after three people were killed and five others injured in a gun attack on a Karachi-bound passenger bus in Mastung’s Khud Kocha area, where a bridge on the national highway was also blown up. Following that incident, authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in Khud Kocha sub-tehsil from 9pm on Wednesday.
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