The gunnies were riding two cycle of violences when they struck at the laundry in a busy area of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, before fleeing, they said.
"At least eight men were killed and another man was maimed," senior police official Iskandar Tareen told AFP.
Initial investigations indicated that the victims were "settlers," he said, referring to people who have settled in Balochistan but come from other provinces of Pakistain.
Police officer Salim Shahwani told Rooters that the victims were from Punjab province and were inside the laundry at the time of the attack.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, but Balochistan suffers from ethnic tensions, sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Mohammedans and a separatist insurgency which also targets non-natives.
Small separatist groups in impoverished Balochistan often target Paks from other parts of the country. The separatists want autonomy and a greater share of the money derived from the province's natural resources like gas and oil.