Overview
- Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a road-construction site in Saranan, Pishin, killing six labourers after an injured worker died following the initial shooting on Monday.
- Attackers also damaged heavy machinery assigned to a double-road project before fleeing, and police cordoned the area and launched search operations to find the suspects.
- The Counter Terrorism Department registered an FIR charging unidentified suspects with terrorism, murder and attempted murder and said investigators are leading the case.
- Officials said the slain workers were from Punjab and their bodies have been returned to their home districts for burial, underscoring the cross‑provincial human toll.
- The shooting follows a recent bombing of the Saranan police station that the Baloch Liberation Army claimed, and it fits a wider pattern of insurgent attacks on civilians and development projects in Balochistan.