ISLAMABAD, April 19 -- Baloch separatist militants gunned down 14 people, including nine Pakistan Navy personnel, after pulling them out of buses in the restive southwestern Balochistan province on Thursday, authorities said.
The militants, wearing paramilitary uniforms, forced passengers out of at least three buses on the Makran coastal highway linking the financial hub of Karachi and Gwadar port early on Thursday, and separated the 14 people they later killed after going through their ID cards, officials said.
Hours after the attack, the Baloch Raji Aajohi Saangar (Baloch National Freedom Front), an umbrella group formed last year by the Baloch Liberation Army, Balochistan Liberation Front and Baloch Republican Guards, claimed responsib...