QUETTA (APP): At least eight people, a police personnel among them, were shot dead at Sariab Road area of Quetta on Saturday, police confirmed.
According to police, two armed motorcyclists barged into a laundry shop located in Kaley Faizabad, Saryab Road area of Quetta near Haq Bahu building and opened indiscriminate fire at the people present there. As a result of firing five persons were killed on the spot while five others sustained injuries.The injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for treatment where three injured people succumbed to their wounds raising death toll to eight.The sources in hospital, where emergency has been put in place, said the death toll may mount as some injured are in critical state. Police feared that the shooting incident could be outcome of personal enmity.
The injured identified as Gul Mohammad, a police constable his son Mohammad Ishaq, Shair Mohammad, Nasrullah, Mohammad Umer and Abdul Hameed succumbed to their injuries while on way to hospital.Condition of one Mohammad Shehzad who was shifted to Civil hospital Quetta is stated to be critical.
Initial investigations indicated that the victims were "settlers," he said, referring to people who have settled in Balochistan but come from other provinces of Pakistan.Police officer Salim Shahwani said that the victims were from Punjab province and were inside the laundry the time of the attack.
Meanwhile the citizens of Quetta have expressed grave concerns over uncontrolled target killing and performance of security forces to tackle the situation.There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, but Balochistan suffers from ethnic tensions, sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims and a separatist insurgency which also targets non-natives.Small separatist groups at in impoverished Balochistan often target Pakistanis from other parts of the country. The separatists want autonomy and a greater share of the money derived from the province's natural resources like gas and oil.
<The Frontier Post>
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