Four people, including a woman, were killed in a road accident, while the bodies of three other people were recovered in separate incidents across Balochistan.
On Tuesday, a collision between a Suzuki van travelling from Quetta to Kalat and a truck at Badrang, in the Khadkocha area along the Quetta–Karachi highway, killed four people, including a woman, and injured five others, including three women.
The deceased were identified as Bibi (S), daughter of Ghulam Haider Muhammad Hassani; Muhammad Anwar, son of Ghulam Sarwar Muhammad Hassani; Zaheer Ahmed, son of Muhammad Yasin Zehri; and Muhammad Ayub, son of Muhammad Yasin Zehri. All four were residents of Kalat.
The injured were identified as Noor Ahmed, son of Niazullah Muhammad Hassani, a resident of Kalat Khel; Bibi (H), wife of Ghulam Haider Muhammad Hassani, a resident of Mughalzai, Kalat; Mahmood Ahmed, son of Ghulam Nabi; Bibi (Z), daughter of Ghulam Mustafa; and Bibi (M), daughter of Ghulam Haider.
Meanwhile, the bodies of two brothers were recovered from Bala Dhaka, a border area of Barkhan district. The two had reportedly been abducted by unidentified men the previous day. Local authorities arrived at the scene after receiving information about the incident and took the bodies into custody.
In a separate incident, the body of a young man was recovered from the roadside near Miani Samandar, on the Dam Bandar Link Road in the coastal town of Winder.
Initial reports identified the deceased as Shahbaz, son of Abdul Sattar, a resident of Dam Bandar.
The circumstances surrounding the incidents remain unclear.