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Musakhail, Pakistan – 26 August 2024
1. Mid of security officials and hospital staff around ambulance carrying dead body
2. Various of funeral
3. Various of ambulances leaving, carrying bodies of victims
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Quetta, Pakistan – 26 August 2024
4. Exterior of Emergency Department of Sandeman Hospital Quetta
5. Various relatives of victims standing in front of mortuary
6. Close of signboard reading (Urdu) "Medical Legal Section, Sandeman Provincial Hospital Quetta Mortuary"
7. Relatives and staff identifying bodies inside mortuary
8. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Haris Hussain, relative of victims:
"They (victims ) were on their way back from Sukkur to Quetta. They were attacked when they were crossing the Bolan area. The total number of vehicles was three. They shot all the drivers. Three were killed on the spot, and one got injure got with six bullets was admitted to hospital."
9. Relative of victim crying, others comforting him
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Qalat, Pakistan – 26 August 2024
10. People bringing coffin for funeral prayers
11. Various of funeral prayers
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Mastung, Pakistan – 26 August 2024
12. Various shots of burned police station
13. Various of burned vehicles in front of police station
STORYLINE:
Pakistanis held funeral prayers on Monday for the victims of three separate gunmen attacks in the country’s southwest, where at least 38 people were killed.
Twenty-three people were fatally shot overnight after being taken from buses, vehicles and trucks in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan province, senior police official Ayub Achakzai said.
The attackers burned at least 10 vehicles before fleeing.
The military also said security forces killed 21 insurgents, marking one of the deadliest days of violence in the restive Baluchistan province, with reports of other shootings and destruction in the area as well.
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.
They also attacked a police station in Mastung and attacked and burned vehicles in Gwadar, all districts in Baluchistan. No casualties were reported in those attacks.
The military said 14 security forces were “martyred” while responding to the attacks. Those appeared to be included in the overall death toll.
Baluchistan has been the scene of a long-running insurgency in Pakistan, with an array of separatist groups staging attacks, mainly on security forces.
The separatists have been demanding independence from the central government in Islamabad.
Although Pakistani authorities say they have quelled the insurgency, violence in Baluchistan has persisted.
The attack in Musakhail came hours after the outlawed Baluch Liberation Army separatist group warned people to stay away from highways as they launched attacks on security forces in various parts of the province.
But there there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest killings.
In a statement on Monday, the BLA only said it inflicted heavy losses on security forces in attacks in the province.
Pakistan’s military and government did not immediately comment on that claim. The group often provides exaggerated figures of troop casualties.
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