Officials said on Friday that gunmen attacked two passenger buses in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, before completing the targeted ethnic killings, officials said on Friday.
Buses going from Balochi Capital Quetta to Punjab province were stopped in Jhob and Loroli districts. According to official reports, gunmen drove several passengers away from buses and shot them.
A survivor of buses told Pakistani Daily, “They pulled out 10 passengers – seven from one coach and three from the other – I did not know what they did to them, but I had heard that we were walking with guns.” Dawn,
Government official Nev Alam told reporters that bodies were recovered in the mountains with bullet wounds.
Punjabis targeted in Balochistan attack
The gunmen blocked the road in Jhob and Lororai districts of Sur -Dakai area near the N -70 highway and closed and two passengers boarded coaches, which were on the way to the Punjab province.
He checked the ID card of the passengers and asked ten of them to get off the buses with the Punjab address. Nine of them were then kidnapped, sources told Dawn,
Ashfak Chaudhary, a administrator from Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab, said the attacks have targeted Punjabi.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari organized a “cruel murder of passengers” and convicted the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), saying that he wanted to “spread chaos and instability in Pakistan.”
The BLA is the strongest rebel group operating in the mineral-rich region of Afghanistan and Iran. They demand freedom from the central government of Pakistan.
The group has often attacked military bases or people of Punjab who travel to Balochistan for trade or employment. A similar attack occurred in February, resulting in seven Punjabi bus passengers.
Edited by: Alex Berry
