At least five labourers were killed and two others critically injured on Wednesday in a targeted attack carried out by two motorcycle-borne gunmen at a construction site in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province.
Police officials said that two men riding on a motorcycle had come to the construction site in the Jiwani area on the outskirts of Gwadar and opened indiscriminate firing.
"There were a dozen or more labourers working at the time and most of them rushed to safety but five of them were killed on the spot," Mohtashim Chengazi, a senior police official said.
He said two other labourers were injured and had been rushed to a hospital as they were in critical condition.
"The casualties could rise," he added.
The official said the killed labourers belonged to Karachi, Multan and Sukkur.
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So far no militant, sectarian or separatist group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but in the past separatists have targeted labourers from other provinces working on the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor projects in the province.
In May, unknown gunmen had killed six labourers in the remote area of Lajjey in the province.