Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for killing six coal-mine workers as violence intensified in the resource-rich province. Bullet-ridden bodies of six coal-mine workers were found in mountains near Marwar, 35 km east of Quetta, on Saturday, a senior police officer said.
A spokesman for the Balochistan Liberation Army militant group telephoned a press club in Quetta on Saturday to claim responsibility for killing the six workers, saying it was in retaliation for the killing and kidnapping of Baluch people. "If the military keeps on killing and abducting our people, such things will continue," said the spokesman, Meerak Baluch, according to a journalist who spoke to him.