QUETTA: At least 14 passengers were forced to offload from a passenger buson Makran Coastal Highway in Balochistan’s Ormara area and shot dead byunidentified gunmen early on Thursday.
The attackers, who numbered around two dozen, were wearing camouflageuniforms, provincial home secretary Haider Ali told AFP.
They “stopped buses on the Makran Coastal Highway and gunned down 14people”, he said, adding that the four vehicles were travelling to Karachifrom the coastal town of Ormara.
Provincial home minister Mir Zia Langov said a full-scale investigation hadbeen launched into the attack and to track down the gunmen, who he said hadfled the scene.
“Such incidents are intolerable and we will not spare the terrorists whocarried out this dastardly attack,” he said.
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The bodies were shifted to a nearby health facility in Ormara.
The attack came less than a week after 21 people, including eight Hazara,were killed and 48 others injured in a suicide blast in Quetta’sHazarganji *sabzimandi*.
