A minimum of seven employees from Punjab province have been killed by separatist militants in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, police stated on Sunday (September 29, 2024).
The Multan employees have been shot lifeless on Saturday night time whereas they have been sleeping in an under-construction home in Khuda-e-Abadan space of Panjgur metropolis, Balochistan Inspector Normal of Police Moazzam Jah Ansari stated.
Ansari stated the employees have been quick asleep when the armed terrorists entered the home underneath building and opened indiscriminate hearth with computerized weapons.
The official stated that luckily one of many employees escaped wounded, whereas one other was not current on the time of the capturing.
The official stated an investigation has been opened into the assault.
“This newest assault appears to be the work of the Balochistan Liberation Military because it has all its traces,” one other safety official stated.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who instantly condemned the assault, sought a report from Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti and reiterated the federal government’s resolve to take all doable measures to eradicate terrorism from the motherland.
President Asif Ali Zardari additionally condemned the assault.
In one other improvement, gunmen kidnapped not less than 20 gasoline firm employees at a building website close to a freeway in Musakhail district of Balochistan province on Sunday.
The Categorical Tribune newspaper reported that armed males stormed the premises of a gasoline firm within the district and kidnapped 20 employees. Police or safety officers haven’t commented on the incident to date.
The report says the gunmen opened hearth after surrounding the employees and kidnapping 20 of them earlier than fleeing to the mountainous area close to the freeway.
On Saturday, a senior chief of the Balochistan Nationwide Occasion-Mengal (BNP-M), Agha Khalid Shah, was shot lifeless and his cousin injured by unidentified assailants in Quetta. This isn’t the primary time that banned separatist teams have attacked employees or civilians in different provinces.
In Might, the banned Balochistan Liberation Military claimed accountability for the homicide of seven barbers in Gwadar.
In April, militants shot lifeless in chilly blood 9 individuals touring on a bus in Noshki on the principle freeway.
Printed – September 29, 2024 10:07 pm IST