At least seven people were shot dead on Thursday while they were sleeping in their residential quarters in Balochistan’s port city.
According to Gwadar Police Station House Officer Mohsin Ali, gunmen opened fire on a residential quarter near the Gwadar Fish Harbour in the Surbandar area, leaving seven dead and one injured.
The police official said that the dead and injured individuals used to work in a barber shop in the area and belonged to district Khanewal in Punjab.
The SHO said that the dead bodies and the injured individual have all been shifted to the Gwadar Hospital.
At least five among the seven labourers murdered in Gwadar belonged to Mian Channu, the Tehsil’s assistant commissioner said.
Meanwhile, Balochistan Chief Minister Mir SarfrazBugti condemned the killing of the seven labourers in Gwadar, calling it “open terrorism”.
Bugti expressed his condolences to their families and said that their families would not be abandoned, vowing to provide all possible support to the families.
“We will chase after terrorists and their facilitators,” Bugti said, adding that there is no soft corner or place for them in Pakistan. “Whatever force is needed against the terrorists will be used,” the chief minister said. He stressed that the writ of the state would be enforced in any case. “Every single drop of the blood of Pakistanis will be accounted for,” he said.
