An attack by unknown assailants on a dam under construction in Prome area in Panjgur district.
As per Balochistan levies — a paramilitary gendarmerie — five people were killed in the firing incident while attackers managed to escape from the under-construction site.
“Forces have cordoned off the area and started searching for the assailants,” it said.
Read more: Terrorists kill 23 Punjabi bus passengers in Balochistan’s Musa Khel
In August, territories stopped a convoy of vehicles coming from Punjab including a passenger bus, and killed 23 people in the firing incident that occurred in Rarasham area of Tingri tehsil located 72 kilometers from district Musa Khel in Balochistan.
The accused stopped the vehicles on the national highway and fired at the passengers in the same old pattern in which various labourers were gunned down in past incidents in the southwestern province.
A heavy contingent of Levies and police reached the spot. Balochistan Levies officials said that the dead bodies of the passengers were then shifted to the hospital and subsequently to their native towns in Punjab where they were buried peacefully amid the presence of thousands of mourners.
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