Nine people were killed near Noshki, Balochistan in the early hours of Saturday, when gunmen forced them off a bus they were travelling in and shot them, officials said.
“About 10-12 gunmen blockaded the National Highway in the vicinity of Sultan Charhai near Noshki and abducted nine passengers from a bus,” Deputy Commissioner Habibulla Musakhel told Dawn.com. They checked the identity cards of passengers from a Taftan-bound bus and kidnapped them.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the attack and sought a report into the incident, according to a post on X by PML-N.
He expressed his condolences to the victims’ families, saying: “We stand with the bereaved families in this hour of grief.”
The premier said the perpetrators of this incident of terrorism and their facilitators will be punished.
He also reaffirmed his commitment to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the root.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Balochistan Mir Sarfraz Bugti expressed deep grief and sorrow over the sad incident, Radio Pakistan reported. He said terrorists would be dealt with iron hands and vowed that terrorists would not succeed in their nefarious designs.
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