QUETTA At least 16 people were killed and nine others injured in different incidents of shooting in Balochistan as violence intensified in the province in anger over the murder of three Baloch nationalist leaders.The bodies of Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, Lala Munir and Sher Mohammad Baloch, were found in Turbat on Wednesday night.A strike was called by the Balochistan National Party-Mengal, Baloch National Front and Baloch Students Organisation. They urged people and transporters to observe a complete wheel-jam strike on Sunday to express solidarity with the families of the Baloch leaders.On Saturday, six bullet-riddled bodies were found near a coal mine between Margat and Marwarn.‘Their hands were tied behind their back and bullets were pumped into their heads from a close range,’ DIG Wazir Khan Nasar said, adding that they worked for coal factories in the area and were kidnapped at gunpoint.The six workers were identified as Ghulam Jilani, Khalid Mehmood, Mohammad Yousuf, Karamat Ali, Khanzada and Munir Salik. Four of them hailed from Azad Kashmir and one each from Punjab and the NWFP.The bodies were sent to their native places for burial. The Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the killing. Four policemen were killed and several others injured in a late night attack on a police camp in Jaffarabad.Another six people, a journalist among them, were shot dead. Four of the deaths took place in Quetta alone. The other two died in Khuzdar and Dalbandin. Gunmen fired on a group of people who were making arrangements for a wedding party in Jinnah town. A man, identified as Talib Sheikh, was killed on the spot while two others, including a 10-year-old girl, were injured.
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