Gunmen kill at least 37 in deadly day of violence in southwest Pakistan
Gunmen fatally shot 23 passengers after forcing them out of buses, vehicles and trucks in an attack in southwestern Pakistan, police and officials said Monday.
QUETTA, Pakistan — Gunmen killed at least 37 people in separate attacks in south-western Pakistan on Monday, officials said, while security forces killed 21 insurgents, marking one of the deadliest days of violence in volatile Baluchistan province, with reports of other shootings and destruction in the area.
Twenty-three people were shot dead overnight after being identified and taken from buses, vehicles and trucks in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan, senior police official Ayub Achakzai said.
The attackers burned at least 10 vehicles before fleeing.
In a separate attack, gunmen killed at least nine people, including four police officers and five passers-by, in Baluchistan’s Qalat district, authorities said.
The bodies of six people were found in Bolan, where insurgents also blew up a railway track, attacked a police station in Mastung, and attacked and burned vehicles in Gwadar, all districts in Baluchistan. No casualties were reported in those attacks.
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