India, Feb. 19 -- Unidentified gunmen offloaded seven passengers from a bus and gunned them down in Pakistan's Balochistan region on Tuesday.

Officials told Dawn News that a group of around 40 armed men stopped several buses and other vehicles near Rakhani, on the Barkhan-Dera Ghazi Khan Highway.

"Armed men offloaded seven passengers from a coach after checking their identity cards and killed them," Barkhan Deputy Commissioner Waqar Khurshid Alam told the newspaper.

After disembarking them from the coach, the gunmen opened fire, killing them on the spot, he said.

He said the attackers managed to escape from the spot after the incident.

The bodies of the seven slain men were shifted to hospital.

The Barkhan deputy commissioner told D...