A Pakistani police officer says gunmen stormed a camp and and kidnapped 20 laborers in the country's southwest

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen stormed a house and killed seven laborers and wounded an eighth in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, a police official said Saturday. The workers were all from the same town in Punjab, which is in Pakistan’s east.

Gunmen stormed a camp in Pakistan’s southwest and kidnapped 20 laborers, police said Sunday. It’s the second assault in as many days in restive Balochistan province, where separatist and militants are stepping up their insurgency against the central government.

Gunmen killed seven workers in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan late on Saturday, police said. Armed men stormed a residence where labourers from eastern Punjab province were staying and opened fire with automatic weapons,

Seven labourers were shot dead in southwestern Pakistan, police said Sunday, in a region where ethnic violence is being waged by militants.

Pakistan's Balochistan province has been rocked by a series of attacks on Punjabi workers by separatist militants. Baloch nationalist groups accuse the central government and China of stealing the province's resources.