Gunmen kill 20 labourers in Pak’s Baluchistan

QUETTA: Gunmen attacked a Pakistani construction site and killed 20 labourers as they slept on Saturday, a government official said, in what appeared to be further violence by rebels seeking to control resources in gas and mineral-rich Baluchistan province.

Separatists have been fighting in the province for decades, demanding an end to what they see as the exploitation of their resources by people from other parts of Pakistan.

The workers killed at a construction site 15 km from the town of Turbat were mostly from outside Baluchistan, suggesting the Baluch rebels were responsible, according to provincial interior minister Akbar Hussain Durrani. REUTERS Egypt confirms death for Brotherhood head A Cairo court confirmed death sentences for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 11 other defendants Saturday.

Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata also sentenced to death two Islamists who have fled the country, and he handed life terms to 23 detained defendants.

They were accused of plotting unrest from their headquarters in a sprawling Cairo protest camp in the months after the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as army chief toppled Morsi following mass street protests, describes the Brotherhood as a major security threat.