, Feb. 25 -- Six members of a family were killed and three others injured when unidentified armed men attacked a house in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Wednesday, police said.

The attack occurred in Buleda tehsil of Kech district, where the assailants opened indiscriminate fire and also fired a mortar round at the house, police sources said. The victims included women and children.

The injured were taken to a nearby hospital, and some of them were reported to be in critical condition.

Pakistan launches border strikes inside Afghanistan; Red Crescent says 18 killed

Provincial Planning and Development Minister Mir Zahoor Ahmed Buledi condemned the incident and blamed the banned militant group Balochistan Liberation Arm...