Pak minister killed in Balochistan

Reuters | By, Quetta
Updated on: Oct 26, 2009 12:44 am IST

Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot dead on Sunday the minister of education in Pakistan's Baluchistan provincial government, Shafiq Ahmed Khan, in the city of Quetta, police and hospital officials said.

Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot dead on Sunday the minister of education in Pakistan's Baluchistan provincial government, Shafiq Ahmed Khan, in the city of Quetta, police and hospital officials said.

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"He was wounded in the head and succumbed to his wounds on the way to hospital," said a doctor in the main hospital in the city, the capital of Baluchistan province.

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