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News card: Gunmen abduct 18 workers from a marble mining site near Khuzdar, Pakistan

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Gunmen abduct 18 workers from a marble mining site near Khuzdar, Pakistan. Locator map adapted from Wikimedia Commons (Milenioscuro, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped) showing Khuzdar district in red within Balochistan province, Pakistan; not a photo of the event. Key facts, as police officials told Arab News, The Express Tribune and PTI: the attack hit a marble mining site in the Naal area, about 40 kilometres from Khuzdar city, on Saturday night or early Sunday, October 17 to 18, 2026 (reports differ on the time); dozens of armed men on motorcycles and in vehicles stormed the site; 18 workers from villages in Khuzdar district were abducted and one worker was shot and wounded; no group has claimed it and police say a search is under way; on Friday, gunmen seized 20 police trainees in Mastung district. Sources: police officials via Arab News, The Express Tribune, PTI. exeindex.com/crime. Record dispatch:2026-10-18-pk-khuzdar-kidnap. @exeindex.
Map: Khuzdar district (red) in Balochistan, Pakistan. Locator map, not a photo of the Oct 17-18, 2026 kidnapping. Map: Wikimedia Commons, User:Milenioscuro, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped by EXE Index) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (map derivative); card by EXE Index

Reported Oct 18: Gunmen stormed a marble mining site near Khuzdar in Pakistan's Balochistan and abducted 18 workers, police officials say. One worker was shot and wounded. No group has claimed it. On Friday, 20 police trainees were seized in Mastung.

What
News card: Gunmen abduct 18 workers from a marble mining site near Khuzdar, Pakistan
Where
Asia
When
2026-10-18
Source
Arab News Pakistan
Credit
Map: Khuzdar district (red) in Balochistan, Pakistan. Locator map, not a photo of the Oct 17-18, 2026 kidnapping. Map: Wikimedia Commons, User:Milenioscuro, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped by EXE Index)
License
CC BY-SA 4.0 (map derivative); card by EXE Index
Details
Asia, Pakistan

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Sources and credit

  1. Arab News Pakistan
  2. Dispatch: the full record

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