QUETTA – Security forces late Monday recovered 18 people, including 16 foreigners being sent to Europe illegally during an operation in an area of Turbat days after finding 20 bullet-ridden bodies.
Balochistan’s Frontier Corps (FC) launched a crackdown in the Radbeen area where all 18 persons, including 15 Nigerians, one Yemeni and two Pakistanis were held hostage in a house during the trip.
Pakistani persons have been identified as Shujauddin from Lahore and Ghulam Hussain from Karachi.
The FC also recovered a huge cache of weapons from the house, besides arresting two suspects during the operations.
The recovery of the foreigners happens a day after the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested an alleged human smuggler from Gujrat in connection with the Turbat killings.
On November 15, fifteen bodies were found in Buleda area of Turbat tehsil in Kech district of Balochistan. The bodies bore bullet wounds and were of people from different parts of Punjab, including Mandi Bahauddin, Gujranwala, Gujrat and Sialkot.
On November 17, five more bodies were found in the same tehsil, Turbat, albeit at a distance from the previous spot.
