In Pakistan, five people were killed and three others injured after unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate fire on a group of locals in the Shahrag area of Balochistan’s Harnai district.

 

The armed assailants had set up a picket near Sheikh Musa Baba Chowk and were checking the Computerised National Identity Cards of passersby. Police said an altercation broke out when some locals resisted the checking, following which the unidentified gunmen opened fire on the crowd.

 

Four people died on the spot, while another critically injured victim succumbed to injuries while being shifted to Quetta for medical treatment.

 

Earlier, a newlywed couple was brutally gunned down in Karachi on Monday. The deadly ambush occurred moments after they exited a local courtroom to validate their marriage.