"Two gunmen riding on motorbikes opened fire on a group of construction workers in Peshukan Ganz neighborhood of Gwadar", local administration official Munir Zamari said, adding, "One worker sustained injuries and he is being treated at a local hospital". Unidentified assailants on motorcycles opened indiscriminate fire on the labourers and fled the scene.
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack in Mustang killed 26 people.
People comfort each other at the funeral on Saturday of one of the 25 victims of a suicide attack in Baluchistan province of Pakistan.
Haideri is a central leader of JUI-F, which is part of Pakistan's ruling coalition headed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party.
It bears mentioning that the latest attack is pivotal in the backdrop of development going on in Gawadar and Pakistan's burgeoning ties with China.
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The deep-water port has a strategic importance for the Belt and Road initiative, a part of which - the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - connects Pakistan's southern region to China's western Xinjiang region through rail and roads.
During a Congressional hearing listed a number of groups, he said, pose threat to Pakistan's internal security.
Rescuers, police, and paramilitary troops were dispatched to Pishgan and Gant Road where gunmen targeted Labourers who had been working for the provincial government at two separate construction sites on three kilometres apart along the same road. Islamabad denies the charges.
On May 12, a top US National Intelligence Director Daniel Coats warned China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would provide militant groups operating within Pakistan with "additional targets".
Considered to be a part of China's One Belt, One Road initiative, the Dollars 46 billion CPEC will cover significant parts of Balochistan, Sindh and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
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