Pakistan, May 17 -- A woman police constable and a lecturer were shot dead in separate attacks in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, police officials said on Saturday.

In the first attack in Kech district, the woman police constable, identified as Shakeela, was gunned down when she was traveling in a private vehicle with her husband and two children to a local court in Turbat city for duty.

She is second woman constable who was killed by unknown armed men in Balochistan in less than a month. On April 19, another woman cop, Malik Naz Baloch, was killed during a shootout with militants in Khuzdar district.

Imran Qureshi, the deputy inspector general (DIG) of police in Makran Division, said Shakeela was targeted near a farm in ...