At least 10 people were killed and 15 others injured when unidentified armed men opened fire on four buses in separate incidents in Sibi and Bolan districts of Balochistan late on Sunday night.
Per details, the first incident near Colmagi involved a bus traveling to Quetta from Nawabshah and a truck. The assailants opened fire on the two vehicles, killing four people on the spot. The second incident occurred in Bala Nari area of Bolan when unidentified armed men opened fire on a Quetta-bound coach, killing three people and injuring five others. In another incident near Dhadar, armed assailants opened fire on a bus, killing a woman and injuring three others. The injured were rushed to a hospital where two more succumbed to injuries.
Meanwhile in Mastung, unidentified people torched two trucks on way to Karachi. No casualty was reported in that incident. The attacks were linked to the 6th anniversary of Nawab Akbar Bugti by the Balochistan Republican Party (BRP), whose leader Brahamdagh Bugti has led an insurgency to secede from Pakistan.
He is the grandson of Akbar Bugti, who was killed during a military operation in 2006. BRP spokesman Sarbaz Baluch claimed responsibility for the shooting. “We had launched an appeal for a complete strike and the buses bound for southern Sindh and central Punjab provinces had ignored our appeal. We therefore opened fire on them,” he said in a telephone call to AFP. Sunday’s strike had been almost complete across the insurgency-hit province and had been endorsed by almost all political and religious parties in the province.
Ten people killed in firing on buses in Sibi, Bolan
