QUETTA - Two people were killed and five others wounded, while a Nato tanker was set on fire in separate incidents of violence in Balochistan Wednesday.
As per details, unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate fire at a tanker carrying fuel for Nato forces stationed in Afghanistan, at Baghbana area of Khuzdar district. Resultantly, the driver identified as Ishaaq Khan was killed and his helper sustained serious injuries in the attack. The attackers also torched the tanker before fleeing the area. The tanker caught fire and thousands of litter of fuel was destroyed.
Separately, assailants shot dead Balochistan National Party-Awami leader Sardar Taihab Zehri’s brother in Khuzdar district. Police said that Haji Abdul Rauf Zehri was attacked by unknown armed men who managed to flee from scene after committing the crime. In another incident, a woman and her three children were wounded in a landmine blast in Dera Bugti district.  The woman and her three children were on their way in Pirkoh area when one of them stepped on a landmine that exploded, wounding woman and her children.
The injured were later shifted to hospital for medical aid.
Meanwhile, security forces seized 8-kg explosives during a raid at Misri Goth in tehsil Sui of Dera Bugti and got them defused. However, no arrest was made in this connection.