QUETTA: Unknown armed men gunned down a government school teacher and his 10-year-old son in the Kalat area, police said on December 8.
The incident took place in the Mughalzai area, a locality on the outskirts of Kalat town, between Sunday night and Monday. Unknown armed men opened indiscriminate fire at an auto-rickshaw, resulting in the death of 10-year-old Mohammad Akram Zehri, who was travelling with his father.
The school teacher, identified as Ghulam Sarwar Zehri, sustained bullet injuries. Police rushed to the site after receiving information about the incident and shifted the body and the injured to the district hospital.
Due to his critical condition, the injured teacher was shifted to the Trauma Centre in Quetta, but he succumbed to his multiple bullet injuries upon arrival.
The bodies of the father and son were handed over to the family after postmortem. The cause of the killing could not be ascertained so far. Police are investigating the incident. No group has claimed responsibility so far.
Published in Dawn, December 9th, 2025.
