According to Gwadar Police Station Station House Officer (SHO) Mohsin Ali, unidentified gunmen opened fire on a residential quarter near the Gwadar Fish Harbour in the Surbandar area, leaving seven dead and one injured.
The police official said that the dead and injured individuals used to work in a barber shop in the area and belonged to district Khanewal in Punjab.The SHO told media that the dead bodies and the injured individual have all been shifted to the Gwadar Hospital.This incident comes at least three weeks after unidentified assailants gunned down 11 people in separate terror incidents in the Nushki district of Balochistan.At least 11 people were gunned down by unknown assailants in two separate terror incidents in Nushki district of Balochistan.Nine of the deceased, who belonged to Punjab, were travelling in a bus on the National Highway from Quetta to Taftan when they were stopped by the militants, pulled out of the bus and abducted.The police launched a search operation for the abductees, however, their bodies were found under the bridge near a hill. All of them had been shot dead.The murdered men belonged to the Mandi Bahauddin, Wazirabad and Gujranwala areas of Punjab. According to Nushki Superintendent of Police (SP) Allah Bukhsh, the deceased men were labourers.The police said that six people belonged to Mandi Bahauddin and were from the same village Chak Fateh Shah. Their family members said that the men had left for Iraq three days before Eid.Meanwhile, two more were dead and three others sustained injuries in another incident in the city the same day.Similarly, on March 20, security forces acted swiftly and foiled a fierce attack after a group of gunmen stormed the Gwadar Port Authority (GPA) colony.Eyewitnesses said that they heard multiple explosions after firing in the complex which houses passport office, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) office, and other government offices.