At least 23 people from Punjab have been killed in Balochistan’s Musakhel district after armed men offloaded passengers from trucks and buses and shot at them after checking their identities, an official said.
According to Assistant Commissioner Musakhail Najeeb Kakar, armed men blocked the inter-provincial highway in the Rarasham district of Musakhel and offloaded passengers from buses.
He noted that the dead were identified as belonging to Punjab.
The armed men also set fire to 10 vehicles, he said.
Police and Levies officials reached the spot and began shifting the bodies to the hospital, the AC said.
Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti strongly condemned the incident of terrorism.
He expressed heartfelt sympathy and condolences to the families of those who died in the cowardly act of terrorists.
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