QUETTA: Four members of a Christian family were gunned down in Quetta on Monday.
The family was travelling in a rickshaw when armed men on a motorcycle intercepted them and opened fire. A woman injured in the attack was rushed to the hospital while her father and three cousins were killed on the spot. “It appears to be a targeted attack,” provincial police official Moazzam Jah Ansari said. “It was an act of terrorism,” he added. The attack comes a day after the Christian community celebrated Easter on Sunday. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Separately, five people, including a Levies man, were killed while as many injured in a clash between two groups in city’s Qambarani Road area.
According to police, two groups opened fire at each other following a dispute. The bodies of the deceased were handed over to the heirs after completion of medico-legal formalities.
Following a targeted attack in Quetta that killed one, Hazaras on Monday staged a protest to denounce the government’s failure to provide security to the Balochistan’s marginalised community.
Two Hazara men, one of them identified as Nazar, were traveling from Marriabad to Hazara Town on Sunday when unknown assailants on foot opened fire on their vehicle near the Kandahari Bazaar.
Published in Daily Times, April 3rd 2018.
