 (KUNA) -- Five dead bodies of Pakistani nomads, killed by Afghan security forces, were brought back home on Thursday, said an official. Five nomads of Lora Lai district, about 94 miles east of Quetta, the province of Southwestern Baluchistan province, went to Afghan eastern province of Zabul through Pakistani-Afghan Chaman border, District Mayor of Lora Lai, Sardar Jahanzeb, told KUNA by telephone. He said under unknown circumstances Afghan forces gunned them down, adding that there bodies were sent back home today (Thursday).
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Following the incident, locals in Lora Lai district held protest demonstrations and observed shutter-down strike. Afghan forces last month killed four nomads of the same district in the same fashion. |