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Gunmen Kill 11 Miners In Southwest Pakistan: Officials 01/03/21 AT 6:25 AM Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan have killed at least 11 workers at a remote coal mine, officials said Sunday. The victims of the attack in Baluchistan province were from the minority Shiite Hazara community. "Dead bodies of the 11 miners have been taken to a local hospital," Khalid Durrani, a government official in the area, told AFP. Ethnic Hazara make up most of the Shiite population in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan -- the country's largest and poorest region, rife with ethnic, sectarian and separatist insurgenc...

Pakistan: Gunmen kill 11 minority Hazara coal miners in Baluchistan The victims were from the minority Shiite Hazara community. Pakistan's prime minister, Imran Khan, condemned the attack as a "cowardly inhumane act of terrorism." Many ethnic Hazara live in Pakistan's Baluchistan region Attackers in southwestern Pakistan have killed at least 11 workers at a remote coal mine, officials said Sunday. The victims were from the minority Shiite Hazara community, Khalid Durrani, a government official, told French news agency AFP. The Islamic State extremist group later claimed responsibility for the...