Pakistan insurgents kill 21, including children, in multiple attacks

Separatists from Pakistan’s Balochistan province claimed responsibility for nearly a dozen coordinated attacks across southern Pakistan early on Saturday that targeted civilians, a high-security prison, police stations and paramilitary installations.

Eleven civilians, 10 security personnel and 67 insurgents were killed, authorities said.

Though Baloch separatists and the Pakistani Taliban frequently target security forces in Balochistan and elsewhere in the country, coordinated attacks on this scale are rare.

Authorities said at least 108 militants have been killed across Balochistan over the past 48 hours, including 67 on Saturday.

The dead included 11 civilians, among them three women and three children, in the city of Gwadar in Balochistan, police official Ibad Khan said.

He said the dead civilians were ethnic Baloch. Khan said police quickly responded to the attack and killed all the attackers.