QUETTA, Pakistan — Gunmen fatally shot 23 passengers after figuring out them and taking them from buses, automobiles and vans in one of many deadliest assaults in restive southwestern Pakistan, police and officers stated Monday.
The killings occurred in a single day in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan province, senior police official Ayub Achakzai stated. The attackers burned a minimum of 10 automobiles earlier than fleeing the scene.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi in separate statements known as the assault “barbaric” and vowed that those that had been behind it will not escape justice.
The assault got here hours after the outlawed Baluch Liberation Military separatist group warned individuals to avoid the highways, however there was no speedy declare of duty.
The separatists in Baluchistan have usually killed employees and others from the nation’s jap Punjab area as a part of a marketing campaign to pressure them to depart the province, which for years has skilled a low-level insurgency.
Most such earlier killings have been blamed on the outlawed group and others demanding independence from the central authorities in Islamabad. Islamic militants even have a presence within the province.
