hlul Bayt News Agency - QUETTA, Pakistan - Two Takfiri assailants on a motorcycle Wednesday shot dead three Shiite welders at a shop in Quetta, in what police said as an act of targeted killing of Shia settlers.
“Unknown gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead three welders at a shop and fled,” senior police official Abdul Razzaq Cheema told AFP.
He said it appeared to be an “ targeted killing of Shia settlers” as the victims were from Punjab.
Aitzaz Goraya, another senior police official confirmed the shooting and casualties.
Police sources said that the killing took place at Quetta's Sirki Road adding that all the victims received multiple bullets.
The dead bodies were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for postmortem. Traffic was suspended and shopkeepers pulled down their shutters after the attack.
source : abna
