Security personnel did not resist terrorist attack in Turbat: Home Minister

QUETTA: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said on Saturday that an order had been passed to arrest security personnel who had failed to resist the terrorist attack on a labour camp in Turbat.

The minister said police and Levies personnel didn’t repulse the attack and an inquiry has also been ordered against the personnel who were deployed for security of the labourers.

“There is no place in police for such personnel”, he said, adding that a search operation has also been launched in the area to arrest the attackers.

The home minister said that the killing spree was not an attack launched by a “Baloch against a Punjabi”.

Mir Sarfaraz Bugti added that Indian secret service Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was funding anti-state elements in Balochistan.

At least 20 people were killed and three others injured when unknown gunmen opened fire on a labour camp in Balochistan’s Turbat area in the early hours of Saturday.

The slain labourers belonged to Sindh and Punjab provinces and were working on a bridge at Sohrab Dam in Gagdan area of Turbat.