Gunmen kill 21 miners in southwest Pakistan ahead of an Asian security summit

Associated Press

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say gunmen killed 21 miners and wounded six others in Pakistan’s southwest. It’s the latest attack in restive Balochistan province and comes days ahead of a major security summit being hosted in the Pakistani capital next week. Police official Hamayun Khan Nasir said the gunmen stormed the accommodation at a coal mine in Duki district late Thursday night, rounded up the men and opened fire. Most of the men were from Pashtun-speaking areas of Balochistan. Three of the dead and four of the wounded were Afghan. Nobody claimed immediate responsibility for the attack.