7 labourers gunned down in Pakistan’s Balochistan

Militants stormed a house and killed seven labourers in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Saturday, police said.

The attack took place at around 10:00 p.m. local time (GMT 1700) in Panjgur district of the province, Senior Superintendent of Police in Panjgur, Syed Fazil Shah told Reuters, adding one other labourer was injured.

The labourers were temporarily residing in the house of a local contractor for work, which was stormed by the militants, the spokesperson added.

The deceased were construction workers from east Punjab province, sources from the district’s police informed, adding that the attackers fled the scene following the incident.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.

The country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack and directed the chief minister of Balochistan to take all possible measures to bring the perpetrators to justice.

“We are determined to eradicate terrorism from Pakistani soil,” the Prime Minister’s office quoted Sharif as saying in a statement