QUETTA: Relatives of the missing persons, who were demanding that they were allowed to identify the bodies brought to a civil hospital, managed to snatch several bodies from the hospital’s doorstep.
Hospital officials said it was unclear whether they had positively identified the bodies of their missing loved ones. Don That the protesters connected the Baloch Solidarity Committee (BEC), forced them to go to their death and snatched at least five bodies.
Photos and videos posted on social media show that several men and women have gathered in the civil hospital. In some clips, masked men were shown recovering bodies, surrounded by burial burials and kept in coffins.
BEC workers confirmed that the protesters had taken away many bodies from the wave. He claimed that the bodies had been in a civil hospital for some time, and that the relatives of the missing persons had gathered there in hopes of being able to identify whether none of them were among their loved ones.
Authorities claim that the bodies belonged to the Jaffar Express attackers. BEC activists say families have been protesting for several days to see the bodies, if their fans are among them.
On the other hand, authorities claimed that the bodies that were taken were taken to the hospital after the attack on Jaffar Express and were unknown terrorist organizations that were killed in a military operation.
Police then raided different parts of Quetta and managed to recover at least three bodies, but they were not returned to the Civil Hospital until they were suppressed.
A BEC spokesperson said Don That the protesters had been trying to reach the valley for two days to satisfy themselves that the bodies there were not their loved ones.
He claimed that protesters charging police baton injured two women and arrested several people, including women. However, the authorities eventually were overwhelmed by a large number of protesters at the scene, who eventually managed to reach this and snatched the bodies.
He also claimed that the police later recovered most of the bodies from the protesters in areas like Secretariat Chowk and Sarib Road. Several people have also been arrested in connection with the incident.
Dawn, appeared on March 21, 2025
