Over 100 dead in attacks in troubled Pakistan

TT

Updated 18.26 | Published 09.00

 

The attacks in southwest Pakistan have so far claimed over 100 lives. Photo: Arshad Butt/AP/TT

More than 100 people have been killed, many of them separatists, in clashes in the restive province of Baluchistan in southwest Pakistan in recent days.

Pakistani authorities say that about a dozen civilians and about a dozen members of Pakistan's security forces were killed in battles against rebel groups on Saturday.

Over 100 separatists have been killed in recent days, according to authorities.

The armed separatist group Baluchistan Liberation Army has, as on several previous occasions, claimed responsibility for Saturday's coordinated attacks.

Among other things, railway tracks were reportedly destroyed and a prison was attacked where the group freed prisoners.

The mineral-rich province of Baluchistan borders Afghanistan and Iran. The area has been in turmoil for some time.