Saleem Shahid,
Behram Baloch
July 30, 2026
QUETTA: The bodies of six of seven labourers who were kidnapped earlier this week in the Turbat city of Balochistan’s Kech district were found with bullet wounds on Thursday, an official told
Dawn.
On Tuesday, unidentified armed men had
blocked Turbat-Mand Road in the Kalatak area of Kech district and taken away the seven labourers, who were travelling in a vehicle.
The kidnappers had killed one of the labourers the same day and dumped his body on a highway.
On Thursday, the bodies of the remaining six labourers were also found, Balochistan Home Department spokesperson Babar Yousafzai told
Dawn.
He said the kidnappers had taken the labourers to an undisclosed location, where one of them was killed shortly after the abduction and his body was dumped on the highway.
They later also killed the six remaining labourers, whose bodies were found in Turbat’s Nasirabad area, he added.
Yousafzai said the bodies bore torture marks and bullet wounds, and it seemed that the labourers had been shot at close range.
According to him, four of the deceased were from Punjab and two from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
They were working on a development project in Kech district, and their bodies were taken to the district headquarters hospital in Turbat for autopsy, he said.