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20 Pakistan coal miners shot dead in attack: police

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Coal miners and labourers along with the coffins of victims who died in an overnight attack take part in a protest against these killings in Duki district of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on October 11, 2024. Twenty coal miners were shot dead in an overnight attack by a group of heavily armed men who laid siege to their lodgings in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, police said on October 11. [AFP]

Twenty coal miners were shot dead in an overnight attack by a group of heavily armed men who laid siege to their lodgings in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, police said Friday.

Separatist militant groups in Balochistan regularly target natural resource extraction projects dotted across the mineral-rich province, the poorest in Pakistan.

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