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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. — News cardMap: 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)

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…