QUETTA: Unknown shooters killed seven people traveling to Punjab in the Barkhan district late Tuesday night after they got off a passenger bus.
Officials told that a group of about 40 armed men stopped a number of buses and other cars on the Barkhan-Dera Ghazi Khan Highway near Rakhani.
“Armed men offloaded seven passengers from a coach after checking their identity cards and killed them,” Barkhan Deputy Commissioner Waqar Khurshid Alam said.
“All seven who were travelling in the coach belonged to Punjab, and were on their way to Lahore,” he said.
He said that after getting off the bus, the gunmen opened fire and killed them right there, but the attackers were able to get away.
Later, the bodies of the seven men who were killed were moved to the hospital at the district offices.
The deputy commissioner of Barkhan said that FC and forces staff had arrived at the scene and blocked off the area.
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Punjabi have been the target of numerous killings in Balochistan. In April 2024, two separate events resulted in the forced removal of nine people from a bus near Noshki. Two workers from Punjab sustained gunshot injuries in Kech.
Seven barbers from Punjab were shot and killed near Gwadar in May of last year. In August, 23 travelers getting off of trucks and buses were shot in the Musakhail area.
So far, no group has said that they were behind the attack.
