Gunmen stormed a home in Quetta and killed six Punjabi workers who were painting it, and wounded three others. - (File Photo)
QUETTA Police say gunmen have killed six workers in southwestern Pakistan in the second apparent ethnic-based attack of the day.

Senior police official Hamid Shakeel says gunmen stormed a home in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, and killed six workers who were painting it. Three others were wounded. All the victims were from Punjab province in Pakistans east.

Earlier Saturday, gunmen singled out non-ethnic Baloch passengers traveling on a bus in Aab-e-Ghum, a town about 50 kilometers away, killing 10 and wounding five.

The attack is sure to add to ethnic tensions in Balochistan, where a nationalist movement led by armed ethnic Baluch groups has long sought greater provincial autonomy from the central government. - AP

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