A young man from Balochistan’s Gwadar district, bordering Iran, has been killed after a drone wreckage fell in Iranian waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officials in Makran Division confirmed the incident and said that the deceased citizen’s boat was hit by drone debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A police officer in Gwadar district told the BBC that the man who was killed has been identified as Tayyab Baloch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the police officer, the incident took place on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A senior Gwadar police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Tayyab Baloch belonged to the Gunz area in Jiwani tehsil of Gwadar district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that he was young and a sailor on a boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police officer said that Tayyab was involved in fishing and Iranian oil business, for which he had to go to Iranian borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They said that on Saturday evening, Tayyab Baloch\u2019s boat was in Iranian territory where he was hit by drone debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Administratively, Gwadar is part of Balochistan\u2019s Makran division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When contacted, a senior government official from Makran division confirmed that Tayyab Baloch was killed in a drone strike on condition of anonymity, but did not provide further information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that initially we had received information that Iranian forces had shot down a drone in Iranian territory, part of the debris of which fell on the man\u2019s boat, killing him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A police official in Gwadar said that Tayyab Baloch\u2019s body was not taken to the hospital for a post-mortem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that his relatives brought the body and buried it in his native area in Gunz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are also reports that one person was injured in the incident, but the police official did not confirm this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Local journalist Javed Shay from Jiwani said that after the incident, the other person in the boat took Tayyab Baloch’s body to Gunas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jiwani is a tehsil of Gwadar district bordering Iran and has a population of fishermen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jiwani is located approximately 25 to 30 kilometers from the Iranian border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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