QUETTA: Unidentified gunmen attacked a cluster of small private coal mines in southwestern Pakistan early on Friday, shooting some miners as they slep...
A labourer, who along with others was injured after gunmen attacked a cluster of small private coal mines, receives medical assistance in the Trauma Centre at the Civil Hospital in Quetta, Pakistan October 11, 2024. - REUTERS/Mazhar Ali
“The armed terrorists remained for around 1-1/2 hours in the mining area,“ regional police official Asif Shafi told Reuters. “They fired rockets and hurled grenades at the mines and miners’ quarters.” “We were receiving threats from the militants for some time but there was no information about the attack,“ said mine-owner Khairullah Nasar, who is also the chairman of the district council.A decades-long insurgency in Balochistan has led to frequent militant attacks against the government to press demands for a share of regional resources.
“The provincial government has ordered an investigation and a case has been registered against unknown assailants under the terrorism law,“ a government official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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