26 August 2016

News Story: Five security personnel among six killed in firing incident in SW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- At least six persons including five security personnel and a gov't official were killed and two others injured in a firing incident in Pakistan's southwest district of Gwadar on Thursday evening, officials said.

Commissioner of the district, Shoaib Ahmad Gola, said that the incident took place when some unknown gunmen opened fire at a vehicle of Balochistan Levies (a paramilitary force) in Jiwani area of Gwadar, a coastal district in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan.

Security forces and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and injured to the district hospital of Gwadar.

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