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Gunmen kill at least 14 bus passengers in Pakistan: official
QUETTA, Pakistan, April 18, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Gunmen killed at least 14
people after forcing them to disembark from buses in Pakistan’s restive
southwestern Balochistan province, officials said Thursday.
The attackers were wearing uniforms from the paramilitary Frontier Corps,
provincial home secretary Haider Ali told AFP.
The gunmen “stopped buses on the Makran Coastal Highway and gunned down 14
people”, he said, adding that the vehicles were travelling to the port
megacity of Karachi from the coastal town of Ormara.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which came
less than a week after a suicide blast in provincial capital Quetta killed 20
people.
Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, is Pakistan’s largest and
poorest province, as well as the site of Islamist, sectarian and separatist
insurgencies.
A naval official and a coast guard member were among those killed, Ali
said.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1152 hrs