A Pakistani separatist group has claimed responsibility for the killing of seven bus passengers earlier this week.

Separatist gunmen shot dead seven passengers on a Lahore-bound bus in southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province on Tuesday after forcing them off the vehicle and checking their identity documents,

Unidentified gunmen killed at least seven passengers of a bus on Wednesday in Pakistan’s volatile Balochistan province, officials said. The gunmen targeted the passenger bus in the Barkhan area of the province when it was moving from the provincial capital,