A police constable was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the Mano Jan Road area of Quetta on Thursday.

According to police, the constable, identified as Mehboob Shah, was gunned down in the Huda area. The assailants managed to escape after committing the crime. Responding to the incident, police officials arrived promptly and transferred Shah’s body to Sandeman Provincial Hospital Quetta for medico-legal procedures.

After the postmortem, the body was handed over to his family. The police have started further investigations into the incident.