Islamabad - XINHUA
Eight bullet-ridden bodies and an injured man were found by police in the Lasbela area of South West Pakistan on Sunday morning, local media reported.
The injured man told police that he and the killed people are laborers who were kidnapped by eight unknown militants, while working on a poultry farm in Sakran area of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Saturday afternoon.
"The kidnappers abducted me and 10 other laborers, and took us to some unknown place where they asked us about our identities," local TV Dunya quoted the injured man as having said.
He said that he and eight other laborers came from the country' s east Punjab province while two belonged to Balochistan.
"The kidnappers shot all Punjabi laborers including me on Sunday morning, and set the two Baloch men free," he said.
He said that the attackers fled the scene after spraying bullets at them, thinking all of them dead, but he survived the attack.
No group has claimed responsibility for the incident yet.
Police termed the attack as an incident of target killing.
Chief Minister Balochistan Malik Baloch condemned the killing and directed police to solve the case.
In a statement issued on Sunday morning, Baloch termed the incident as tragic and vowed that the culprits would be arrested.