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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal...

Moazzam Ali Jatoi, an official with the Levies Force, which serves as police and paramilitary in the area, said the attack took place near the Machh coal field, about 48 kilometres (30 miles) east of the provincial capital Quetta.

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...

Gunmen have opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11, a Pakistani official said.

QUETTA, Pakistan: Gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11 in southwestern Baluchistan province early Sunday, a Pakistani official said. Daesh later claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its website. The Sunni militant group has repeatedly targeted Pakistan’s minority Shiites in recent years. Moazzam Ali Jatoi, an official with the Levies Force, which serves as police and paramilitary in the area, said the attackers identified the miners as being from the Shiite Hazara community and took them to up into nearby mou...