DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Unidentified militants shot dead three people on Wednesday in a targeted sectarian shooting here, police and officials said. The assailants sprayed bullets from a Kalashnikov rifle on a vehicle in which two brothers from a prominent Shia Muslim family and their Sunni employee were travelling in Dera Ismail Khan district. All three died instantly and the attackers fled, police said. The two brothers were identified as Najaf Ali Shah and Syed Ali Shah.
It was a targeted killing by Sunni militants, District Police Chief Zulfiqar Cheema said. An official of the provincial government blamed the attack on the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba and urged Shias to remain peaceful. |