Six Pakistani policemen were killed on April 26 in an exchange of gunfire with a gang of kidnappers in the country's Sindh Province. Police officials told RFE/Rl's Radio Mashaal that armed gang members kidnapped the son of a local businessman in the Dera Ala Yar district of Balochistan and transported him to the nearby Jacobabad district. The police chief of Dera Ala Yar district, Sardar Hassan Khan Musakhel, told Radio Mashaal that a group of police chased the kidnappers. In an exchange of gunfire, six policemen were killed and another policeman injured. Balochistan's chief minister ordered an inquiry into the incident. To read the original story on RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal, click here.
