ISLAMABAD: At least 11 people, nine of them from Punjab province, were shot dead by militants in Pakistan’s Balochistan in two separate incidents, authorities said on Saturday, in the latest terror attack in the restive region.
At least nine passengers were killed in the Noshki area of the province when gunmen forced them off a bus they were travelling in and kidnapped them after verifying their Punjabi ethnicity, officials said.
“About 10-12 gunmen blockaded the Quetta-Taftan Highway, N-40, in the vicinity of Sultan Charhai near Noshki and abducted nine passengers from a bus,” according to a senior civilian official of the area, Habibullah Musakhel. (PTI)
