
At least 38 killed in multiple armed attacks in Pakistan’s Balochistan
Al Jazeera
The Balochistan Liberation Army claims at least one of the attacks, with past similar incidents staged by them.
Armed men have killed at least 38 people in three assaults amid other reported incidents of violence in Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan.
Several buses and trucks were stopped overnight on Sunday by armed men who checked passengers’ IDs before shooting 23, setting 10 vehicles ablaze and escaping in the remote area of Rarasham in Musakhail district.
Elsewhere in the province, nine people, including four police officers and five passersby, were shot dead in Qalat district.
On the same day, six people were killed as a railway track was blown up in Bolan, a police station in Mastung was attacked, and several vehicles were burned in Gwadar city of Balochistan.