Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 37 people in three separate attacks on Monday, officials said, while security forces killed 12 insurgents.
Volunteers and relatives load the body of a passenger, who was killed by gunmen at a highway in Musakhail, into an ambulance after collecting it from a hospital, in Quetta, Pakistan , Monday, Aug. 26, 2024.
In a separate attack, gunmen killed at least nine people, including four police officers and five passersby, in Baluchistan's Qalat district, authorities said. The bodies of six people were found in Bolan, where insurgents also blew up a railway track, attacked a police station in Mastung and attacked and burned vehicles in Gwadar, all districts in Baluchistan. No casualties were reported in those attacks.
Separatists are known to ask people for their ID cards, and then abduct or kill those who are from outside the province. Many recent victims have come from neighboring Punjab province. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Interior Minister Naqvi in separate statements called the attack in Musakhail "barbaric" and vowed that those behind it would not escape justice.In May, gunmen fatally shot seven barbers in Gwadar, a port city in Baluchistan.
Ali told The Associated Press that most such attacks are carried out with the aim to economically weaken Baluchistan, noting that "the weakening of Baluchistan means the weakening of Pakistan."Separatists in Baluchistan have often killed workers and others from the country's eastern Punjab region as part of a campaign to force them to leave the province, which for years has experienced a low-level insurgency.
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