Pakistan:Gunmen kill 11 people in Balochistan

In Pakistan,at least 11 people, nine of them from Punjab province, were shot dead by militants in restive Balochistan in two separate incidents, authorities said on Saturday, as the region witnessed a surge in terror attacks in recent days.Nine of the deceased were travelling in a bus on the National Highway from Quetta to Taftan when they were stopped by unknown militants, who pulled them out of the bus and killed them later, an official said.“The bodies of these nine men were later found with bullet wounds in the nearby mountainous areas near a bridge,” he said.
According to police officer, about 10-12 gunmen blockaded the Quetta-Taftan Highway N-40 in the vicinity of Sultan Charhai near Noshki and abducted nine passengers from a bus.The gunmen checked the identity cards of passengers from the Taftan-bound bus and kidnapped them, he added. They were subsequently shot dead.In a separate attack on the same highway, a car that tried to force its way through the gunmen’s cordon was fired upon, killing one passenger and injuring four.When the car did not stop, the gunmen shot at the vehicle, bursting its tires. As a result, the vehicle overturned, police said. Two people, which police said were locals, were killed in the second attack.