Gunmen kill 20 miners and wound others in an attack in southwest Pakistan

Gunmen killed 20 miners and wounded another seven in Pakistan’s southwest, a police official said Friday. It’s the latest attack in restive Balochistan province and comes days ahead of a major security summit being hosted in the capital. Police official Hamayun Khan Nasir said the gunmen stormed the accommodations at the coal mine in Duki district late Thursday night, rounded up the men and opened fire.

Most of the men were from Pashtun-speaking areas of Balochistan. Three of the dead and four of the wounded were Afghan. Nobody claimed immediate responsibility for the attack. According to reports, the attackers gathered and shot all the workers working in the coal mine at one place. This is the second terrorist attack in Pakistan in the last 4 days. Earlier on October 6, there was an explosion near the Karachi airport late at night, in which three people were killed and 11 injured.