The terrorists have along the interprovincial highway in the Rarasham district of Musakhel in Balochistan, Pakistan, and offloaded the passengers from the buses, said Assistant Commissioner Musakhail Najeeb Kakar.
Terrorists have fired at several police stations and have targeted rail lines and vehicles in Pakistan’s Balochistan province; more than 51 people have been killed. This is being dubbed one of the biggest armed raids in the nation’s biggest province.
Out of 51 persons, 23 were massacred in the single biggest act of violence of Sunday night when militants put under a highway checkpoint in the Musakhel area, stopped a bus, asked the travelers to come out of the vehicle, and shot them in their ‘pre-dawn’ quest.
The armed men also not only killed passengers but also killed the drivers of trucks carrying the coals,” Hameed Zahir, the deputy commissioner of the area, told the Reuters news agency. He said that more than 10 trucks were burned after the drivers were massacred.
From the official account, the victims came from Punjab province, as reported by the Dawn news.
A railway line between Pakistan and Iran was also blown up, as was a bridge connecting Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, to the rest of Pakistan, railways official Muhammad Kashif said.
At the same time, the gunmen targeted police and security forces and stations in the province. In one of such attacks, 10 people were reported to have been killed, according to officials quoted by Reuters.
An insurgent group that has been branded as terrorists by the Pakistani government, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), has said it carried out the attacks.
In an e-mailed statement, the group also said that it attacked a paramilitary base. But as of now, Pakistani authorities have not endorsed this statement.
