QUETTA: Unidentified assailants on Saturday shot dead two sec
urity gu
ards of a gas exploration company near the
Pasni area of Gwadar District.
Levies sources said that the guards were deployed for sec
urity of a survey team of Coal Geophysical Company (CGC). The company was conducting a survey for exploration of natural gas in
Pasni.
“The armed men ambushed sec
urity guards with sophisticated weapons by opening volley of bullets on them,” they said, adding that
leaving two sec
urity guards critically injured.
The assailants managed to escape from the scene.
Gwadar Deputy Commissioner Tufail Baloch said the sec
urity guards resisted the armed attackers.
“The gun battle remained for a while which left two sec
urity guards injured,” he said.
The injured guards succumbed to their injuries on their way to a hospital.
Law enforcers cordoned off the entire area to trace out the suspects. Fur
ther probe was underway.
