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Terror attacks successful Pakistan's restive Balochistan region person surged pinch 11 group slain connected Saturday, authorities said. File photograph by Stephen Shaver/UPI | License Photo
April 13 (UPI) -- Armed militants person changeable and killed astatine slightest 11 group successful 2 abstracted incidents successful Pakistan's Balochistan region, authorities said Saturday.
The first incident took spot adjacent nan metropolis of Noshki erstwhile astir 12 equipped men highjacked a autobus walking from Quetta to Taftan. After identifying nan passengers, nan assailants took 9 passengers disconnected nan autobus and past changeable them to death, officials told nan Pakistani newspaper Dawn.
The victims were each men from nan Pakistani state of Punjab. Their bodies were discovered nether a span successful a desolate, mountainous area.
In a abstracted onslaught connected nan aforesaid highway, gunmen fired connected a car that drove done their cordon, nan Press Trust of India reported. Authorities said nan gunmen changeable astatine nan vehicle's tires, overturning it. At slightest 2 people, besides residents of Noshki, were killed successful nan incident.
The killings travel during a surge of panic attacks targeting nationalist information forces successful nan Balochistan region.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif powerfully condemned nan attacks and sought a study connected nan incidents.
"We guidelines pinch nan bereaved families successful this hr of grief," he said. "Terrorists and their facilitators will beryllium punished."
Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti in a station connected X offered his condolences to nan victims' families and promised "the authorities will not spare their killers."
No group has claimed work for Saturday's attacks adjacent Noshki. The Balochistan Liberation Army has claimed work for 3 erstwhile panic attacks complete nan past fewer weeks.
The Pakistani authorities has blamed Afghanistan's Taliban authorities for sheltering Paksitani members of nan extremist group, which nan Afghan rulers deny.
Bugti astatine a property briefing said nan authorities will revisit information plans pursuing nan incidents.
