Post by sevenofnine on Apr 13, 2024 11:27:32 GMT -5
Well this is breaking too
At least 11 people have been killed in southwest Pakistan, officials said on Saturday, in what is suspected to be an attack by ethnic separatist militants after migrant laborers were singled out.
Newly appointed Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the attack an "incident of terrorism" and said "facilitators will be punished".
"The perpetrators of this incident of terrorism and their facilitators will be severely punished,” he said in a statement. "Will root out the monster of terrorism.”
What do we know about the attack?
Six gunmen stopped a bus near the city of Naushki in Balochistan province around 8 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) on Friday to check people's ID cards. They went on to abduct nine workers who belonged to the eastern region of Punjab.
The bodies of nine migrant workers were later found two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the highway. They were all shot and killed "at point-blank range,” senior local police officer Allah Bakhsh said.
The same attackers later fired at a car belonging to a provincial lawmaker. While the parliamentarian was not in the vehicle, two others were killed as the car careened into a ditch, officer Bakhsh said.
According to him, the gunmen "clearly used the modus operandi of Baloch separatists" and
www.dw.com/en/pakistan-11-killed-in-suspected-separatist-raid/a-68809477
At least 11 people have been killed in southwest Pakistan, officials said on Saturday, in what is suspected to be an attack by ethnic separatist militants after migrant laborers were singled out.
Newly appointed Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the attack an "incident of terrorism" and said "facilitators will be punished".
"The perpetrators of this incident of terrorism and their facilitators will be severely punished,” he said in a statement. "Will root out the monster of terrorism.”
What do we know about the attack?
Six gunmen stopped a bus near the city of Naushki in Balochistan province around 8 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) on Friday to check people's ID cards. They went on to abduct nine workers who belonged to the eastern region of Punjab.
The bodies of nine migrant workers were later found two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the highway. They were all shot and killed "at point-blank range,” senior local police officer Allah Bakhsh said.
The same attackers later fired at a car belonging to a provincial lawmaker. While the parliamentarian was not in the vehicle, two others were killed as the car careened into a ditch, officer Bakhsh said.
According to him, the gunmen "clearly used the modus operandi of Baloch separatists" and
www.dw.com/en/pakistan-11-killed-in-suspected-separatist-raid/a-68809477
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