The police action on the locals, majority of whom are Hindus took place when they were staging a protest on Wednesday against the failure of law enforcement agencies to recover hostages taken by bandits of Katcha areas in Kandhkot.
The victims were travelling from Mumbai to Gujarat when the driver lost control of the car, resulting in it crossing the divider and colliding with the truck that was coming in the opposite direction, the police said.
A search operation is underway in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi on Tuesday after one terrorist was killed and one police personnel was injured in an encounter with security forces on Monday.
The shooting took place at 2:17 am on Monday morning when a vehicle arrived at the emergency department with individuals believed to have been injured in an earlier off-site shooting, as per a University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital spokesperson.
According to officials, a Levies force official was killed and his wife was injured after some unknown assailants barged into their residence in the Johan area of Mangochar town of Kalat district and opened fire.
“The two were trying to escape. When surrounded by the police team, they started firing at the forces and got injured by the police's retaliatory firing,” Shalimar Garden Police Station ACP Suryabali Maurya said.