Armed gunmen seize twenty police trainees from a van on Quetta-Karachi highway

While heading home for the weekend, twenty police recruits from the Kalat Police Training Centre were ambushed on the Quetta-Karachi Highway in Mastung district. Armed men riding motorcycles, equipped with automatic weapons, stopped the passenger van, seized the trainees and the vehicle, and drove them to an undisclosed site. The driver and three additional passengers were let go unharmed.

The recruits are part of the Levies Force, which has recently been integrated into the provincial police. Authorities from Mastung confirmed the kidnapping and launched a search operation in the surrounding mountainous area. So far, no organization has stepped forward to claim the attack, and the whereabouts of the abducted personnel remain unknown.