Armed attackers kill 11 miners of minority group

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Armed men abducted and killed at least 11 coal miners in southwestern Pakistan early Sunday, officials said. All the victims were ethnic Hazaras, a minority Shiite group that has often been the target of Sunni extremists.

Four more miners were wounded and undergoing medical treatment, officials said.

Officials said the events took place in Machh, a small mining town in Baluchistan province, about 30 miles east of Quetta, the provincial capital. They said the attackers had blindfolded the miners, tied their hands behind their backs and shot them at close range. The bodies were found Sunday.