The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) on April 13 claimed the killing of 11 bus passengers on Quetta-Taftan N-40 Highway in Nushki District of Balochistan on April 12, alleging that they were Government employees, reports The Khorasan Diary. The gunmen blocked the N-40 Regional Corporations Development (RCD) highway that connects Pakistan and Iran and taken the nine Punjabi passengers, after checking their identification, to nearby mountain region where they were gun down. The nine Punjabi victims were from Wazirabad, Mandi Bahauddin and Gujranwala Districts of Punjab, adds The Nation. Two other persons, said to be local, were killed during the gunman’s raid on bus. During the same attack on the same highway, a car that tried to force its way through the gunmen’s cordon was fired upon, killing two passenger and injuring three others.