KHUZDAR: Unidentified gunmen shot dead senior Balochistan National Party (BNP) leader Jumma Khan Raisani and three other people in Khuzdar on Friday.
Raisani was on his was home after Friday prayers when armed men on motorbikes opened fire on his vehicle near Khuzdar Degree College.
“Raisani, his two guards and driver received serious injuries and were pronounced dead before reaching the hospital,” a senior police official in Khuzdar told The Express Tribune.
The assailants managed to escape after the shooting.
Scores of BNP activists rushed to the hospital after the incident and protested against Raisani’s killing.
Police cordoned off the area after the incident and launched a search operation for the assailants.
BNP sources said a number of party leaders had been killed in recent years, including BNP secretary general Habib Jalib Baloch who was killed in Quetta in July 2010.
