India, March 11 -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead three gold miners in Pakistan's Rehmanabad area on Tuesday, media reports said.

The deceased people were identified as Tahir, Asim and Fahad.

The Shakardarra police have registered the triple-murder case against the unknown assailants after the postmortem of the bodies was carried out, reported Dawn News.

The social and political circles have questioned as to who is patronising the placer gold mining despite a ban on it by the government under Section 144, and patrolling by the police from Khushalgarh to Shakardarra areas, the newspaper reported.

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