Pakistan: Gunmen kill 9 Punjabis in Balochistan bus attack

PAKISTAN: Gunmen attacked two passenger buses in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, before carrying out targeted ethnic killings, authorities said on Friday.

Buses traveling from Balochi capital Quetta to Punjab province were stopped in the Zhob and Loralai districts. Gunmen took several passengers off the buses and shot them dead, according to official reports.

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“They dragged out 10 passengers — seven from one coach and three from the other — and took them away. I don’t know what they did to them, but I heard gunfire as we were leaving,” a survivor from one of the buses told Pakistani daily Dawn.

The bodies were recovered in the mountains with bullet wounds, government official Naveed Alam told reporters.