(26 Aug 2024)
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Musakhail, Baluchistan, Pakistan – 26 August 2024
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1.Police car driving past burned vehicles, rising smoke
2. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Taimoor Shah, resident:
“The gunmen first of all targeted the trucks, burned them and after that they stopped buses and the passenger in it who came from Punjab got off and was shot dead.”
3. Burned vehicles
4. Hospital staff and security officials transporting injured people
5. Various of of attack scene ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Gunmen fatally shot at least 23 passengers after identifying them and taking them from buses, vehicles, and trucks in one of the deadliest attacks in restive southwestern Pakistan, police and officials said on Monday.
The killings occurred overnight in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan province, a senior police official Ayub Achakzai said.
The attackers burned at least 10 vehicles before fleeing the scene.
Muhammad Shah, a medical officer at a local hospital, said "a medical emergency was declared when we heard about the incident, we, all doctors , paramedics and other staff have been present here in the hospital since last night and in the morning after (there were) morning prayers."
He said at least 22 people were killed, before that figure was revised later to 23.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi called the attack “barbaric” and vowed that those who were behind it would not escape justice.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but separatists in Baluchistan have often killed workers and others from the country’s eastern Punjab as part of a campaign to force them to leave the province, which for years has experienced a low-level insurgency.
Most such previous killings have been blamed on the outlawed Baluchistan Liberation Army and other groups demanding independence from the central government in Islamabad.
Islamic militants also have a presence in the province.
AP video by Rehmat Khan
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