Seven people were killed in an armed attack on a bus heading to Lahore in the Balochistan province, southwest Pakistan.Authorities said that a group of around 40 armed men stopped several buses and other vehicles near Rakhani, on the Barkhan-Dera Ghazi Khan Highway.Barkhan Deputy Commissioner Waqar Khurshid Alam said, ‘armed men offloaded seven passengers from a coach after checking their identity cards and killed them.’No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the motives for the killings remain unclear.Pakistani authorities have imposed a security cordon around the area, but the attackers managed to escape.
