Assailants kill 14 people in SW Pakistan
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, April 18, IRNA -- At least 14 people were offloaded from a bus on the Makran Coastal Highway in Pakistan's Balochistan and shot dead by unidentified assailants early on Thursday, local media reported.
Reports quoting Levies force sources said around 15-20 unidentified armed assailants in camouflage uniform reportedly stopped five or six buses travelling between Karachi and Gwadar.
Initial investigations further suggest that the victims were first forced to reveal their computerised national identity cards (CNICs) for their identification and then were shot dead by the assailants.
At least 14 were shot dead, while two passengers managed to escape the massacre and made it to the nearest Levies checkpost. They were shifted to Ormara Hospital for treatment.
The motive behind the killings and the identity of the victims are yet to be ascertained.
A similar incident took place in Balochistan's Mastung area in 2015, when armed men kidnapped about two dozen passengers from two Karachi-bound coaches and killed at least 19 of them in the mountainous area of Khad Kocha.
Within the past week, Balochistan saw a terror attack targeting the Hazara community in Quetta which left at least 20 killed, and a blast in Chaman which targeted security forces.
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