Islamabad, Aug 26 (Reporter) At least 23 Punjab residents were killed in Balochistan's Musakhel district after armed men offloaded passengers from trucks and buses and shot them after verifying their identities, media reports said. The armed men also set fire to 10 vehicles. According to Assistant Commissioner Musakhail Najeeb Kakar, armed men blocked the inter-provincial highway in the Rarasham district of Musakhel and offloaded passengers from buses, the Dawn reported. According to the police, the killings were targeted. All victims belonged to different areas of southern Punjab, suggesting they had been chosen for their ethnic background. Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti condemned the terror incident and expressed sympathy and condolences to the families of those who died in the terrorist act. The terrorists and their facilitators will not be able to escape an exemplary end, he said, adding that the Balochistan government will pursue the terrorists. According to reports, the Musakhel attack follows a similar attack in April in whichre nine passengers were offloaded from a bus near Noshki and shot dead after gunmen checked their ID cards. In October last year, unidentified gunmen fatally shot six labourers hailing from Punjab in Turbat in Balochistan’s Kech district, reports said. In 2015, gunmen killed 20 construction workers and injured three others in a pre-dawn attack on a laborers' camp near Turbat. The victims belonged to Sindh and Punjab, reports added...////...