QUETTA: Unidentified attackers killed seven people, including six police officers, when they ambushed a convoy in Jawani area of Gwadar district on Thursday, officials said. “The convoy headed by a senior local administration official, Naeem Gichki, was passing by an abandoned checkpost of the tribal police… in two vehicles when they were attacked by a group of up to seven people, who were hiding in the post,” provincial home secretary Akbar Harifal told AFP. He said the assailants fired rockets at the vehicles, adding that Gichki and five local tribal policemen were killed and three others injured in the attack. Another Levies official later succumbed to his injuries in the hospital, according to a local news channel. Meanwhile, the state news agency reported that a tehisldar was among those three injuried. Another senior local administration official Qurban Magsi confirmed the incident and the casualties. Law enforcement agencies reached the site and cordoned off the entire area. They started a search to trace the suspects. However, no arrests had been made till the filing of this report. Also, no group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanuallah Khan Zehri strongly condemned the incident of firing and ordered the local administration to arrest the culprits at the earliest.
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