Officials in Pakistan's insurgency-plagued Baluchistan province say gunmen took 23 people off buses and trucks and gunned them down.
Quetta, Pakistan — Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 31 people in two separate attacks on Monday and security forces killed 12 insurgents, officials said, in one of the deadliest days of violence in the restive Baluchistan province, with reports of other shootings and destruction in the area. Twenty-three people were fatally shot after being identified and taken from buses and trucks in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan, senior police official Ayub Achakzai said.
Uzma Bukhari, a spokesperson for the Punjab provincial government, denounced the latest killings on Monday, saying the 'attacks are a matter of grave concern' and urging the Baluchistan provincial government to 'step up efforts to eliminate BLA terrorists.' Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said in a statement that security forces in Baluchistan responded to the latest attacks on Monday, killing 12 insurgents.
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