According to police, unidentified attackers shot up people sitting inside a shop on Quetta’s Jan Muhammad Road. The assailants managed to escape unhurt after the attack, police said.
The injured were rushed to nearby Civil Hospital, Quetta, for medical treatment.
Police are suspecting it to be an act of murder, however, the actual motive behind the attack remains unknown so far as police are carrying out investigations into the matter.
The identities of those killed and injured in the attack are yet to be ascertained.
A state of emergency has been imposed at the hospital where the injured have been shifted. Moreover, shops in the area were closed following the incident.
On Saturday, two shopkeepers belonging to the Shia Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...community were killed in a drive-by shooting in Quetta's Jamaluddin Afghani Road.