QUETTA, Pakistan – Gunmen killed seven passengers Friday at a bus terminal in southwest Pakistan.
Hamid Shakeel said 12 people also were wounded in the attack on the outskirts of the city of Quetta in Baluchistan province.
The victims were non-Baluch and were waiting for a bus to travel to neighboring Iran, he said.
Hours later, a bomb exploded outside a football field in Mastung, south of Quetta, wounding 11 people, including a nephew of the top elected government official in the province, officials said.
The attack happened as Mir Akmal Raeesani, the nephew of Nawab Mohammed Aslam Raeesani, was leaving after watching a football match between two local teams, police official Azmat Ullah said. He said Raeesani was listed in critical condition.
Baluchistan is home to a small separatist movement that often targets Pakistanis from other parts of the country living there. Many non-Baluch have left as a result.
The separatists want a greater share of the money derived from the poor province's natural resources.
