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At least nine people, including seven labourers, were shot dead and two others wounded in separate incidents in Turbat and Qilla Saifullah on Tuesday.
The defunct Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) claimed responsibility for the killings in Turbat. According to the sources, unidentified armed men attacked a camp of labourers at the Maskan area, some 40 kilometres away from the Turbat town of Kech district. As a result, five people died on the spot and four others sustained serious wounds. The injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Turbat where two injured labourers succumbed to their injuries.
Around eight labourers were sitting in a camp of a private construction company, which is constructing a road, when they were attacked by armed men with sophisticated weapons, the attackers also torched two vehicles and some machinery of the company before fleeing the scene. Sources said that most of the deceased labourers were settlers, a term used for those who do not belong to Balochistan.
The spokesman of outlawed BLF, Dohda Baloch, called media offices from an unknown location and claimed the responsibility for the killings. He said besides the killings, the BLF militants had also torched four vehicles and heavy machinery of the construction company.
The spokesman said they had already warned the businessmen to avoid investing in Balochistan. He warned the private companies to halt their activities in Balochistan, saying they would have to face similar attacks in case of a failure.

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