QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistani police are looking for gunmen who killed eight individuals after abducting them from a bus on a freeway within the nation’s southwest, a police official mentioned Saturday, Earlier, the identical attackers killed two individuals and wounded six in one other automotive they pressured to cease.
In accordance with the police official, the kidnapping occurred on Friday in Baluchistan province, which has lengthy been the scene of an insurgency by separatists preventing for independence.
Deputy Commissioner Habibullah Mosakhail mentioned the gunmen arrange a blockade, then stopped the bus and went by way of the passengers’ ID playing cards. They took eight individuals with them, all from the japanese Punjab province, fleeing into the mountains, he mentioned.
Police later recovered eight our bodies beneath a bridge about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the freeway. Earlier on Friday, the identical gunmen had opened hearth at a car that didn’t cease for his or her blockade, killing two and wounding six.
A seek for the perpetrators was underway, Mosakhail mentioned. The bus was heading from the provincial capital of Quetta to Taftan, a city bordering Iran.
Abductions are uncommon in Baluchistan, the place militants often goal police forces and troopers or infrastructure.
There was no fast declare of accountability for the killings. Police mentioned there was no ransom demand and no indication of a motive for the assaults.