According to district officials, the firing incident took place in the Gharibabad area where unidentified armed assailants opened fire on a police patrolling van, resulting in the killing of four security personnel.
According to reports, the victims identified as Zeeshan, Khalid, Dilawar Hussain, and Muhammad Amin, all from Sadiqabad, Punjab. They were attacked by armed men on motorcycles at iftar time, as per ARY News.
Baloch activist Iqra Baloch has raised concerns about the arrest of Baloch rights leader Mahrang Baloch, who were taken into custody by the police on Saturday morning.
Paank, the human rights department of the Baloch national movement, criticized the arrest of Baloch rights leader Mahrang Baloch and the violent crackdown on peaceful protesters by Pakistani security forces in Quetta.
Hakeem Baloch, a member of the Baloch National Movement's Foreign Committee, strongly criticised the arrest of Mahrang Baloch and the lamented human rights violations in Quetta after the Pakistani forces shot dead five protesters during a 'peaceful protest'.
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) shared the details of her arrest on X and said the bodies of the slain youth, which were at the protest site, have also been taken into custody.
Paank condemns the arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance of Beebagr Baloch and his brother Hammal Baloch, who is being held at Bijligar Tana, Quetta, and Ilyas Baloch, who is now being imprisoned at Huda Jail, Quetta.
Niaz Baloch, Coordinator of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) Foreign Department and a Central Committee Member, highlighted the alarming human rights situation in Balochistan during the 58th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.
Baloch protestors, who had been demanding to identify the dead bodies of their relatives, forcefully entered the civil hospital in Quetta and took away a number of corpses from the hospital morgue.
Baloch leader Mehran Marri has condemned Pakistan's military operations in Balochistan, linking the BLA's Jaffar Express attack and the Noshki blast to systematic repression. He dismissed negotiations with Pakistan, emphasising that Balochistan will accept nothing less than full independence
The relatives had assembled to identify bodies brought in by security forces. The violence erupted when families of forcibly disappeared persons, along with human rights activists, attempted to enter the hospital to view the bodies, The Balochistan Post reported.