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Home World 20 Killed, 8 Injured After Armed Men Open Fire At Pakistani Coal Miners

20 Killed, 8 Injured After Armed Men Open Fire At Pakistani Coal Miners

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Karachi:

A minimum of 20 miners had been killed and eight others had been injured early Friday when unidentified armed males attacked their coal mines in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province.

The incident occurred within the Dukki space of the province, Dunya Information reported.

The assault is the most recent in a string of violence in Pakistan. It comes much less forward of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s summit to be held within the nationwide capital.

In response to District Chairman Dukki Haji Khair Ullah Nasir, the attackers used hand grenades and rocket launchers within the assault. He stated that there are ten coal mines situated within the space.

Nasir stated that the attackers additionally set ablaze mining equipment earlier than fleeing the scene.

A minimum of 20 miners had been killed and eight others had been wounded.

Police, paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) and rescue groups rushed to the spot after the assault.

Police sources stated that the dying toll could rise as some injured minors had been in essential situation.

SHO Dukki Hamanyan Khan stated the armed males first gathered the miners in numerous teams after which sprayed bullets on them.

Heavy contingents of police and FC have cordoned off the world and launched a search operation to arrest the culprits.

Pakistan has witnessed a worrying surge in terrorist assaults within the ongoing 12 months with fatalities within the first three quarters surpassing the numbers recorded in all of 2023.

As per the third Quarterly Report (Q3) issued by the Centre for Analysis and Safety Research (CRSS), the variety of fatalities rose to at the very least 1,534 within the first three quarters of 2024 in comparison with 1,523 in 2023.

Balochistan, bordering Iran and Afghanistan, is dwelling to a long-running violent insurgency. Baloch rebel teams have beforehand carried out a number of assaults concentrating on CPEC initiatives.

The banned Baloch Liberation Military (BLA) accuses China and Islamabad of exploitation of the resource-rich province, a cost rejected by the authorities. It has fought a long-running insurgency for a separate homeland.

Earlier this week, two Chinese language nationals had been killed and 17 individuals injured in a suicide assault by a Baloch rebel group that focused a convoy of Chinese language employees close to Pakistan’s busiest airport in Karachi. PTI SH NSA NSA


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