Two Shia boys were martyred and another two injured when Talibani Terrorist forces (sect of Wahhabis in Pakistan) opened fire at them in Balochistan’s Bolan district, police said on Wednesday.
The police said the four boys had gone for a picnic to Bolan from Quetta and were shot late on Tuesday.
Bolan Station House Officer Didar Magsi said the boys had gone to Pir Ghaib area, a popular picnic point in the city, and were shot while asleep.
The deceased were identified as Abdul Latif and Syed Ghulam Mustafa, while the injured were named as Mehmoodul Hassan and Misir Ali.
Doctors said the condition of the injured boys was out of danger. All the victims were between 20 and 25 years old.
The dead bodies of two slain Shia boys were handed over to their family members and brought to Quetta’s Hazara Town. The causes of the killing could not be ascertained.
“We do not rule out the possibility of target killing against the Shias in this particular case,” Mirza Hussain, a central leader of the Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) told Baloch Hal, “There were surely people from other ethnic groups as well to celebrate vacations at this popular picnic point. Targeting all four Shia boys simply means it was an act of target killing the members of the Hazara Shia tribe,” he observed.
Members of minority Shia-Hazara community in Balochistan have been under fire for the past many yeas in Quetta and its neighboring districts. Hundreds of Hazara-Shias have lost their lives in sectarian killings so far. While a banned Sunni organization, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, has been claiming responsibility for what appear to be cases of sectarian killing, these target killings have also engulfed secular leaders such as Hussain Ali Yousafi, the chairman of the HDP who was killed earlier this year in Quetta city.
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