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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- At least six persons including five security personnel and a gov't official were killed and two others injured in a firing incident in Pakistan's southwest district of Gwadar on Thursday evening, officials said.
Commissioner of the district, Shoaib Ahmad Gola, said that the incident took place when some unknown gunmen opened fire at a vehicle of Balochistan Levies (a paramilitary force) in Jiwani area of Gwadar, a coastal district in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan.
Security forces and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and injured to the district hospital of Gwadar.
Five personnel of the Levies force and a revenue official were among the killed, while the injured include one major and a soldier.
According to the official, the gunmen armed with automatic guns ambushed the vehicle of the security personnel when they were coming back after attending a grand meeting of local elders over a land dispute in Jiwani area.
Security forces have cordoned off the region and launched a search operation to arrest the terrorists.
No group had claimed responsibility for the attack yet.
