14 bus passengers shot dead in Pakistan

Gunmen ambushed a bus and killed 14 passengers after going through their ID cards and forcing them out on a highway in the restive Baluchistan province in southwestern Pakistan.

The attack took place as the bus was traveling on the Makran coastal highway between the port city of Karachi and the Gwadar port in the southwest.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the killings. Prime Minister Imran Khan condemned the attack, calling it “an act of terror.”

Separatists in Baluchistan frequently target Pakistani security forces and also people from neighboring Punjab province. Punjabis, a different ethnic group from the Baluch, tend to dominate the ranks of the military units stationed in Baluchistan that the separatists are fighting.

Via AP