Quetta : The BLA terrorist organization late last night conducted a most vile and abhorrent terrorist act, where they went into a coal mine where civilian miners were working, and used assault rifles to shoot TWENTY (20) miners dead, in cold blood.
17 Pakistani citizen miners belonged to Pashtun areas of Balochistan, and 3 of them were Afghan refugees. 7 more miners are seriously injured.
After the gun attack the BLA terrorists set the mine on fire.
In Balochistan, at least twenty coal miners were killed and seven others injured in a terrorist attack in Duki district early this morning.
According to police sources, the incident occurred when some unknown armed assailants attacked a private coal mine with heavy arms.
Meanwhile in a statement, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on miners in Duki district. He expressed grief and sorrow over loss of precious lives and commiserating with the bereaved families, prayed for departed souls.
Prime Minister reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to root out terrorism in all its forms.