Gunmen killed at least 22 people in southwest Pakistan on Monday.(Aamir Qureshi / AFP)
Gunmen killed at least 22 people in southwest Pakistan on Monday, after forcing them out of vehicles and checking their ethnicity, government officials said.
“At least 22 people were killed and 5 injured when militants stopped several busses, trucks and vans on a highway connecting Punjab with Balochistan,” Najibullah Kakar, a senior official in Musakhail district of Balochistan, told AFP.
“Those killed include 19 Punjabis and 3 Baloch. They are mostly Punjabi labourers.”
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