Gunmen kill 20 miners in Pakistan
GUNMEN have killed 20 miners and wounded seven in south-west Pakistan, police said today.
The latest violence in restive Balochistan province took place days before a major security summit opens in the national capital Islamabad.
The gunmen stormed the accommodation at a coalmine in Duki district on Thursday night, rounded up the men and opened fire, police official Hamayun Khan Nasir said.
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