Six members of a family were killed and three others injured when unidentified armed men attacked a house in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Wednesday, police said.

The attack occurred in Buleda tehsil of Kech district, where the assailants opened indiscriminate fire and also fired a mortar round at the house, police sources said. The victims included women and children, reports UNB. 

The injured were taken to a nearby hospital, and some of them were reported to be in critical condition.

Provincial Planning and Development Minister Mir Zahoor Ahmed Buledi condemned the incident and blamed the banned militant group Balochistan Liberation Army for carrying out the assault.

He described the incident as an attack on innocent civilians and said law enforcement agencies had been mobilized to arrest those responsible and bring them to justice.