파키스탄 건설노동자 20명, 현장에서 피습 사망 Gunmen kill 20 sleeping labourers at Pakistan site(VIDEO)
무장단체 ‘발루치해방전선’(BLF) 소행
Pakistani labour union workers shout slogans during a protest against the killing of construction
workers in an attack by gunmen. Image: Getty.
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파키스탄 남서부 발루치스탄주 고그단 지역에서 무장괴한들이 건설노동자 숙소를 공격해 20명이 사망하고 3명이 다쳤다. 현지경찰은 11일(현지시간) “새벽에 괴한들이 오토바이를 타고 와 잠자던 노동자들에게 총을 쏴 살해하고 달아났다”고 현지 일간 돈(DAWN)에 밝혔다. 사상자들은 현지 다리 건설 공사에 참여하던 펀자브와 신드주(州) 출신 노동자들로 밝혀졌다. 이번 사건에 대해 발루치스탄 분리독립을 주장하는 무장단체 ‘발루치해방전선’(BLF)은 자신들의 소행이라고 주장했다. BLF 대변인은 “발루치스탄주가 분리독립될 때까지 공격을 계속할 것”이라고 엄포를 놓았다. BLF는 2009년 유엔 난민고등판무관(UNHCR) 파키스탄 대표부 책임자인 미국인 존 솔레키를 발루치스탄 주도인 퀘타에서 납치했다가 풀어준 바 있다.
사르프라즈 부그티 발루치스탄주 내무장관은 이날 “테러공격이 이뤄지는 동안 맞서지 않고 달아난 경찰관과 예비군 병사들을 처벌할 것”이라고 밝혔다. [쿠키뉴스=민수미 기자] min@kmib.co.kr |
by CW Staff Gunmen shot and killed at least 20 labourers at a construction site in Pakistan as they slept on Saturday night, officials have confirmed. The attack occurred at a site 15 km from the town of Turbat in the gas- and mineral-rich Balochistan province. The labourers were working on a dam project in the Gobdan area, and were all from outside the region. Of the dead, 16 were from Pakistan’s Punjab province and four were from the Sindh province. Eight security guards, all from the Balochistan region, were unharmed. According to Pasand Khan Buledi, police commissioner of the Makran division, said a large group of armed men attacked a labour camp near the dam construction site. They overpowered the eight guards, shot the sleeping workers - having identified that they were from outside the region - before escaping. Provincial Interior Minister Akbar Hussain Durrani told reporters, “All were sleeping in their camp when they were targeted.” He quoted three wounded survivors as saying that around 15-20 gunmen overpowered eight guards from a government paramilitary force, then opened fire on the sleeping men with automatic weapons. They escaped on motorcycles. A man claiming to be a spokesman for the banned Baloch Liberation Front called local reporters and said his group had carried out the attack as a reprisal for military operations in the area. Balochistan borders Afganistan and Iran, and is Pakistan’s poorest and most sparsely populated area. Late last month, unknown militants set at least five oil tankers on fire and abducted four drivers reportedly carrying fuel for a Chinese company working on the Saindak Project in Balochistan’s Chaghi district, outside the provincial capital Quetta. Police sources said the privately owned tankers were targeted because they supply oil to a Chinese company working on a major project in the province. The attack took place as Pakistan prepares to hand over its deep sea Gwadar port to Chinese interests this month. The atmosphere surrounding the handover is tense. According to reports, militants with sophisticated weapons began firing indiscriminately on the tankers near the Kirdi Gap area of Mastung district late Monday morning. Police and frontier corps are investigating the attack. Efforts have also been made to trace the missing drivers. constructiononline |
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