Rescue teams reached the scene and shifted the injured, who were in critical condition, and the deceased to a local hospital.
Witnesses said the assailants were on motorcycles and opened indiscriminate firing on the men sitting at the hotel.
Police and Frontier Corps (FC) cordoned off the area.
It is suspected to be an incident of target killing which has become, along with bomb blasts, a common occurrence in the area.
Earlier, at least 14 people, including five children, were killed and over 48 sustained injures in a powerful remote-controlled blast outside a religious seminary near Bank Chowk on Saryab Link Road.
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Sunni Muslim need to realize that these Taliban might consider themselves as Sunni but after killing the Shias they will come after sensible sunnis. It has already started
Shame shame shame, Settlers from Punjab and other places are killed on daily basis by these bla terrorists. Where are the NGOs and Government officials, no remarks from them. We need a strong military action against there terrorists so that the people of balochistan can live in peace.
A very sad incident indeed. May the departed souls rest in peace. Whoever are behind these attacks, they are trying to start a civil war in Balochistan.
@Asma J: "Liberals need to rejoice with the nationalists and not condemn this act."
How cheap you are trying to imply without stating that someone like Asma Jahangir would rejoice. I do not think any liberal can be happy at 7 labourers being killed for no reason whatsoever. Not even liberals across the border who are supposed to wish you ill by the way.
@ ALL:
Killing of Punjabi settlers is wrong. AND killing of Baloch civilians are wrong. And now increasing Pashtuns and Hazara are targeted - WRONG. Think about humanity and Islam first. Ethnic identity is only for identification (as it says in the Quran). Many Hindus have been kidnapped and killed. That is equally WRONG. Condemn violence as it should be condemned. For people getting Imran Khan involved - HE IS NOT EVEN IN POWER RIGHT NOW. NOT ONE SEAT. Criticise him when he comes to power but not now. And brothers and sisters, go out and talk to people you hold stereotypes against. I am in Lahore and I am a Punjabi and I have so many Baloch friends (students who came to study). There is very little difference - Allah ki Qasm. Allah bless Pakistan and the whole of Muslim world. AMEEN!
When Baloch terrorists are killed, justice will be the reason. But there will be (internet) outrage when terrorists are killed.
Liberals need to rejoice with the nationalists and not condemn this act.
People responsible for this will be dealt with swiftly by the FC and then HRW will start moaning about FC brutality.
Why is there so much violence in Pakistan? Human life has no value. What are they killing each other for anyway?
I am waiting for Imran Khan's response on this issue. Imran Khan only talks about drones and he is silent on Sectarian killings and Ethnic killings. Imran Khan never criticized Lyari Operation and he only criticized 12th May Killings because Imran know who were killed that day. Many people are of the view that Imran Khan is silent on every issue except when the people from his own Ethnic lines are Concerned..
Shocking! The killed were poor labourers, who had nothing to do with any party to the conflict
No doubt that this act is condemnable in strongest possible words.... Killing of innocent civilians is not acceptable under any circumstance... But using this incident one can't justify what atrocities Fc is committing against innocent Baloch civilians... Its total hypocrisy to condemn killing of settlers and not of Baloch citizens
@ Faraz: what difference does it make to you. 7 lives have been sniffed out.
This is an act of foreign funded cowards who intelligently combine politics with crime and gain sympathy through media and a bunch of Lawyers. The killers are no one other than those for whom IGFC is snubbed in the supreme court. Down with the supporters of these cowards and criminals.
I am pretty sure this time no Foreign funded NGOs and Asma Jahangir will come forward as those are gunned down who talk about Pakistan and came from Punjab and they are poor laborers. NGOs and so called champions of Human rights will talk only when some native person would be killed otherwise settlers have every right to get killed.
@faraz:
It was an ethnic attack,targetting punjabi civilians living in balochistan.
Why is there silence over this atrocity? just because the people targetted in this attack were punjabi civilians,the twitterati is silent.Are the targetted murders of punjabi civilians not crimes?
Sectarian or separatists?