A policeman and four labourers were killed and two others were injured in an attack on a police station in Balochistan’s Turbat on Tuesday.
While confirming the attack, Kech District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Baloch said “around 20 miscreants” attacked the Naseerabad Police Station in the early hours of Tuesday.
He said constables Essa and Hassan tried to engage the attackers but the former was martyred during the exchange of fire. “Constable Hassan was overpowered and the weapons of both the policemen were snatched.”
DPO Baloch added that a heavy contingent of police reached the scene and began a search operation. He said the Counter Terrorism Department had joined the investigation.
The police official disclosed that labourers spend the night at the police station for security reasons.
A similar attack was conducted on Oct 14, in which unidentified gunmen fatally shot six labourers and left several wounded in the Kech district. Turbat is the administrative centre of the district. In that attack, which also took place in the early hours of the day, a group of armed men barged into a residence in Turbat’s Satellite Town area and indiscriminately shot the labourers.
It was after this attack that authorities directed labourers to stay at police stations during the night over security fears.
