QUETTA: Unidentified armed attackers shot and killed at the very least seven passengers within the Barkhan space of Balochistan late on Tuesday night time, the assistant commissioner (AC) mentioned early on Wednesday.
As per particulars, armed assailants opened fireplace on a passenger bus on Rakhni Principal Street in Barkhan, killing seven passengers.
Deputy Commissioner Waqar Khurshid Alam mentioned the attackers had arrange a checkpoint on the street, the place they stopped the bus and forcibly took the victims earlier than executing them.
Emergency has been declared at Rakhni Hospital following the incident.
A survivor, Zeeshan, recounted the harrowing expertise, revealing that his brother Adnan was taken off the bus and shot useless.
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He mentioned the assailants, armed with Kalashnikovs, checked passengers’ id playing cards earlier than executing them. He additional said that his personal ID card was in English, which can have spared his life.
The victims had been residents of Burewala, and the bus was en route from Quetta to Multan. Safety forces have launched an investigation into the focused killings, and legislation enforcement companies have been placed on excessive alert within the area.
Alternatively, Provincial Minister for Meals Haji Noor Muhammad Khan Dummar strongly condemned the assault, stating that the terrorists focused harmless individuals.
He expressed solidarity with the victims’ households and known as for swift motion towards these accountable.