Gunmen kill five policemen in Pakistan

Unidentified gunmen shot dead five policemen, including a senior officer, in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday.

Two senior police officers were also injured in the attack on the busy Saryab Road in the heart of the capital of Balochistan province, police said.

A Deputy Superintendent of Police was among those killed in the attack. The gunmen fled after the incident, witnesses said. The injured officers were rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors described their condition as critical.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Nationalist insurgents, demanding more rights and share in the exploitation of Balochistan's abundant natural resources, regularly target security forces and government officials in the province.

The three main Baloch nationalist groups recently ended a unilateral truce they had called last year.