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firing was done, and during which several of the victims were still alive and moving, including the two women who were seen holding hands. One of the injured women on the ground waved her arm and pleaded for mercy. It is during that time that TV crews and many officers arrived on the scene. Then another volley of bullets was fired at the group as they lay on the ground until no sign of life could be seen. This second volley of bullets was filmed and photographed by many members of the Press and by
Pakistani TV crews. The corpses were then pulled away from each other with ropes tied around their wrists and ankles for it was feared that they wore suicide vests.
92:, indicated that they were suicide bombers that were in possession of grenades and explosives and that they had hurled grenades at police. There was even a report of a Pakistani soldier killed in the "exchange" (a likely case of friendly fire). The day after the incident, the Quetta chief of police, Dawood Ahmad Junejo, stated in a Press conference that "The five Chechens were not killed in firing by security personnel, but in a bomb explosion". He further stated that "five mobile phones, two diaries, 48 fuses, seven detonators, a computer disc and CDs were recovered from the alleged suicide bombers".
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a route to by-pass further checkpoints. This is when their driver made them get out of the car and continue on foot. The second checkpoint called the one where the shootout occurred to warn them about the car with the five
Chechen foreigners. One article stated that Policemen had taken all their money from them ," he said. "Then they prayed at a mosque along with the women. Local people told them to lodge a complaint at the
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Later news articles revealed that the five had been forced to bribe their way through police checkpoints, where the policemen had even asked for sexual favours from the young women. When a similar incident occurred at subsequent checkpoint, the group fled, asking their hired
Pakistani driver to find
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The police surgeon who conducted the autopsy on the victims of
Kharotabad shooting and who contradicted the police version that the five had died as a result of a grenade blast that they had themselves detonated, has been attacked and hospitalised in Quetta, a few hours after he testified in court.
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Kharotabad checkpoint came to understand that they were about to be attacked by Chechen suicide bombers and acted accordingly. As the 5 travellers approached the checkpoint they were greeted with a volley of bullets and all fell to the ground. There was a long period during which no
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Thursday quoted witnesses as saying that the suspects were unarmed, had put up no resistance to the security forces and appeared to be about to surrender when they were gunned down. Officials of a bomb disposal squad which searched the bodies after the shooting told Reuters that they found no
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A driver that had driven the five victims just before they were killed, retracted an earlier statement he had made, in which he had claimed the five were armed. "I lied under duress that the foreigners were carrying hand grenades. The police threatened me with dire consequence" he claimed.
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explosives strapped to the bodies of the
Chechens. They were unarmed and had no suicide jackets or explosives with them," one of the officials said. "Five valid and two expired Russian passports were found in a ladies' handbag lying with the bodies," the second official said.
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under the
Balochistan Tribunals Inquiry Ordinance 1969. The papers were concluded under Justice Mohammad Hashim Kakar and duly submitted his report to Government of Pakistan over the cause of the incident.
35:, Pakistan in May 2011. They were shot on the basis of reports that they were suicide bombers. A police surgeon who testified against the official account was later also claimed to be shot dead.
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An autopsy performed on the bodies of the five
Russians determined that all died from bullet wounds, and found no trace of explosives on their bodies. One of the women was 7 months pregnant.
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to investigate the incident and submit a report within 10 hours. Lehri recommended a judicial probe covering all the federal and provincial employees who were involved in the incident.
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236:. Police officials earlier had claimed to have killed five "terrorists" on and were believed to be wearing suicide jackets, carrying weapons and about to attack a check post in Quetta.
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Sherada, a Russian citizen, and that she was the wife of victim Nauman Tajik, a Tajik National.
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A group of people pulled up outside a restaurant where he was eating and dragged the surgeon out and severely beat him up. He had to be rushed to the civil hospital.
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of the Russian Federation, on 15 January 1992. Her passport had been issued on 3 January 2006 and had expired on 3 January 2011. She was not an
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to open fire on five Russian citizens. After observing the papers of the events, Prime Minister
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619:Balcoh, Shehzad (12 June 2011).
321:"Five Chechens killed in Quetta"
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474:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
1104:Crime in Balochistan, Pakistan
924:Embassy of Russia in Islamabad
348:Shahid, Saleem (20 May 2011).
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1074:PakistanāTajikistan relations
441:Haider, Erum (12 June 2011).
415:Hafeez, Abdul (20 May 2011).
945:Pakistan Stream gas pipeline
1079:RussiaāTajikistan relations
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273:War in North-West Pakistan
197:and were submitted to the
148:. They are not Chechens".
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17:The Kharotabad incident
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216:Synthesis and inquiry
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