Islamabad
At least 14 passengers including 11 security personnel were forcibly offloaded from a bus on a highway in Pakistan’s Balochistan province and then shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Thursday, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\n deceased included nine personnel from Pakistan Navy, one from Pakistan \nCoast Guard and one from Pakistan Air Force, whereas identities of the \nremaining three victims were not determined yet, security officials were\n cited as saying by a news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident happened when \nfive buses, travelling between Karachi and Gwadar on the Makran Coastal \nhighway, carrying civilians and the victims were stopped by some 20-25 \nmilitants wearing Frontier Corps uniforms to check identity cards of the\n passengers. After scanning the identities of passengers in one of the \nbuses in Buzi Top area, the militants offloaded 16 of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proscribed\n organisation Baloch Raji Ajoi Sangar claimed the attack on their \nunverified Twitter account, saying that their offensives against the \nsecurity forces will further intensify, the media said. After reaching a\n “safe” place, these soldiers informed security forces about the whole \nincident who rushed to the incident site and recovered 14 bodies, \nofficials added.Confirming the incident, a Pakistan Navy spokesperson \nsaid that several Navy personnel were among those killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Provincial\n Home Minister Mir Zia Langov said a full-scale investigation was \nlaunched into the attack and to track down the gunmen.”Such incidents \nare intolerable and we will not spare the terrorists who carried out \nthis dastardly attack,” he said. \n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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