Gunmen kill 20 people in Pakistan’s Balochistan‘DESTABILIZERS’: The province’s chief minister said ‘terrorists once again targeted poor laborers’ and added that ‘the killing of the innocent would be avenged’AP, QUETTA, PakistanGunmen killed 20 miners and wounded another seven in Pakistan’s southwest, a police official said yesterday, drawing condemnation from authorities as a search was launched for the attackers. The attack in Balochistan Province came days ahead of a major security summit in the capital. A man is treated yesterday at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, following an attack in Balochistan Province a day earlier. Sarfraz Bugti, the chief minister in Balochistan, said that “terrorists have once again targeted poor laborers.”The attackers were cruel and had an agenda to destabilize Pakistan, he said. They accuse the federal government in Islamabad of unfairly exploiting oil and mineral-rich Balochistan.

Source: Taipei Times October 11, 2024 18:22 UTC