Terror­ists checke­d identi­ty cards of passen­gers before offloa­ding themQUETTA: At least 14 passengers, including Pakistan Navy personnel, were offloaded from buses and were shot dead by terrorists on the Makran Coastal Highway early Tuesday. “The martyred include personnel from the Pakistan Navy,” said a spokesperson from the service. A passenger bus – travelling between Karachi and Gwadar – was stopped by around 25 unidentified attackers in the Buzi pass area near Hangol after midnight. The terrorists – wearing Frontier Corps uniforms – checked the identity cards of the passengers before offloading and abducting the victims. Rescue teams moved the bodies of the victims to a Navy hospital in Ormara for the identification process.

Source: The Express Tribune April 18, 2019 05:25 UTC