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India-Pakistan
Two Shia Hazaras gunned down in Quetta
2014-04-13
[DAWN] Armed turbans killed two people of ethnic Shia Hazara community in Sariab road area of Quetta, the capital of volatile 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...
province on Saturday night, police said.

Imran Qureshi, the Superintendent of Police Sariab Road told Dawn.com that armed turbans singled out two members of Hazara community from a passenger bus and opened fire on them from a very close range.

He said one person was killed on the spot while the other succumbed to his wounds on his way to hospital. The attackers sped away on their cycle of violences after the firing.

"The incident as an act of assassination," Qureshi said. The passenger bus was preparing to leave for Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
when intercepted by krazed killers, he added.

Police and personnel of Frontier Corps (FC) reached the spot and launched an initial investigation into the incident.

"It is an act of sectarian terrorism," police said.

The dead bodies of the victims were rushed to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for medico-legal formalities.

The incident took place four days after at least 17 people were killed in a blast at Sibi railway station in the province.

Quetta remained under the grip of sectarian attacks for last more than a decade. A large number of members of Hazara community have been killed in assassinations and suicide kabooms.
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