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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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