A roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying coal miners in restive southwest Pakistan on February 14, killing at least nine people and wounding others, officials said, Report informs via AP.
The attack happened in Harnai, a district in Balochistan province, according to a government administrator Wali Kakar. He said police had transported the dead and wounded to a hospital and officers are still investigating.
Most of the victims were from the country’s northwestern Swat Valley and other areas, authorities said.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and provincial authorities in separate statements condemned the attack and ordered local authorities and police to trace and arrest those who orchestrated the attack and killed innocent laborers.
Though no one claimed responsibility, the suspicion is likely to fall on the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army separatist group which has been blamed by the government for such previous attacks on laborers from other parts of the country.
