QUETTA:
At least 11 people, including a woman, were killed and several others were injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire near a bus stop on Spini road in Quetta on Saturday.
“The vehicle was passing by a bus stand when gunmen riding in another car opened fire, killing at least 11 people and wounding three,” city’s police chief Hamid Shakeel told Reuters.
A rickshaw driver was also among the dead.
Another police official said it appeared to be a sectarian attack as all those killed were Shia Muslims.
No group has claimed the responsibility of the incident as yet.
The bodies were shifted to the Bolan Medical Complex where the relatives of the dead are arriving.
The relatives have blocked the Barori Road in front of the hospital in protest.
The protesters set ablaze two vehicles of Bolan Medical Complex and damaged its building, while the police resorted to aerial firing to disperse the protesters.
The Hazara Democratic Party announced a strike against the shooting in Quetta on Sunday.
In a similar incident of Friday, seven people were killed and 12 were injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus stand where Shia pilgrims were waiting to travel to neighbouring Iran.
Earlier, the nephew of Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Aslam Raisani and another man was killed while 39 others sustained injuries in an explosion followed by intense firing at a football stadium in Mastung area on Friday.
Quetta Firing Incident Pictures/Images: Source Samaa
