Pak forces kill terrorist involved in massacre of laborers in Turbat

RAWALPINDI: Security forces on Friday killed a leader of banned outfit involved in the killing of 15 laborers in Buleda area of Balochistan.

According to ISPR, the media wing of the military, Younis Taukali was killed in an operation carried out by Frontier Crops in Alandur, Abdul Rehman village of Turbat  on the basis of intelligence information.

The ISPR said Taukali, one of the main leaders of the banned Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), was killed during a shootout.

Authorities on Wednesday found 15 bullet-ridden bodies of kidnap victims in Balochstan near the border with Iran.

The bodies were found abandoned in a mountainous region of Buleda, in Baluchistan province, 600 km (370 miles) south of the provincial capital of Quetta.

On Thursday A C-130 aircraft first brought the bodies to the Lahore airport after which the Edhi ambulances shifted them to Sialkot, Gujrat and Mandi Bahauddin.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced provision of Rs1 million to the family of each victim as financial assistance.