At least 23 people have been killed in Musakhail after armed men offloaded passengers from trucks and buses and fired at them after checking their identities.
According to Assistant Commissioner Musakhail Najeeb Kakar, armed men blocked the inter-provincial highway 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.
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