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India-Pakistan
Three Hazara people among four killed in Quetta
2015-05-27
[DAWN] Four people, three of them belonging to the Shia Hazara community, were killed and eight others, two women among them, suffered injuries in three incidents of firing here on Monday.

Bazaars, markets, shopping centres and shops were closed and normal activities suspended in the city after the incidents. Vehicular traffic remained thin in and around the city.

People of Hazara community and traders demonstrated outside the office of the inspector general of police and Quetta Press Club to protest against the incidents.

Enraged people gathered on Masjid Road and Liaquat Road, forcing shopkeepers to close their shops.

The first incident occurred in Iqbal Road area where gunnies shot up a tea shop, killing one Anwar Ali Hazara and injuring a passerby, Mohammad Azam Yousufzai.

Police took the body and the injured to the Civil Hospital. "The slain man was hit by eight bullets which caused his instant death," hospital sources said.

The incident was followed by an attack on people, women among them, waiting for a lady doctor outside the Saleem Medical Complex. The attack was carried out by two gunnies on a cycle of violence.

Two people was struck down in his prime and four others were maimed, police said.

A heavy contingent of police and Frontier Corps personnel cordoned off the area and took the gunfire victims to the Combined Military Hospital, where doctors confirmed death of two men. They were identified as Abdul Hakeem Hazara and Mohammad Hashim Hazara. The injured were admitted to the hospital.
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