(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Gunmen on two motorcycles fired indiscriminately at a group of Hazara men who were standing outside a shop at Prince Road in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, shortly after 7.30 pm.
Six men were martyred instantly, witnesses and police officials said.
The injured persons were taken to a nearby hospital in a serious condition.
The attackers fled before police cordoned off the area. The shooting caused panic and shops closed down after the attack.
“Two gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire on a shoe store killing six Shia Muslims and wounding three others,” senior police official Muhammad Tariq told us.
“It was most probably a sectarian incident but the police are investigating,” he said.
Angry members of the Hazara community gathered outside the hospital where the bodies and injured were taken and demanded the arrest of the gunmen.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Dozens of members of the Hazara community have been killed in sectarian attacks in Quetta and nearby areas. These attacks have been blamed by Shia groups on the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba.
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