India, Aug. 26 -- Militants gunned down five laborers at a construction site in Pakistan's Balochistan, a provincial official said on Tuesday. The labourers, all belonging to the Punjab province, were killed in Saranan town in Pishin district of Balochistan on Monday morning. The bodies of these laborers have been sent to their hometowns in Punjab, Shahid Rind, a spokesperson for the Balochistan Government, said.

Arrangements were made to transport their bodies for burial in their respective villages in Ahmedpur, Sharqia and Bahawalpur.

Security forces launched a search for the gunmen, he said. Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti condemned the killing of the laborers. "Those shedding the blood of innocent laborers deserve no lenie...