Gunmen killed two people from Pakistan's minority Shiite community when they opened fire Monday on a taxi in Quetta, which has been gripped by a wave of sectarian bloodshed, police said.
The attack was mounted on busy Iqbal avenue in the southwestern city, the capital of Baluchistan province where the surge in sectarian unrest has killed scores of Shiites.
Elsewhere in Baluchistan, two people were killed and three wounded in a bomb attack on a mosque close to customs offices at the Chaman border crossing to Afghanistan.
"The driver and a passenger boarding taxi cab, both were Shiite. They died after unknown gunmen fired at their car," Fayyaz Sumbal, a senior police official in Quetta, told AFP of the attack in that city.
He said the two attackers were waiting for the taxi to arrive at the busy avenue and escaped on a motorbike after spraying bullets at the vehicle.
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Gunmen kill two Shiite Muslims in SW Pakistan | GlobalPost
The attack was mounted on busy Iqbal avenue in the southwestern city, the capital of Baluchistan province where the surge in sectarian unrest has killed scores of Shiites.
Elsewhere in Baluchistan, two people were killed and three wounded in a bomb attack on a mosque close to customs offices at the Chaman border crossing to Afghanistan.
"The driver and a passenger boarding taxi cab, both were Shiite. They died after unknown gunmen fired at their car," Fayyaz Sumbal, a senior police official in Quetta, told AFP of the attack in that city.
He said the two attackers were waiting for the taxi to arrive at the busy avenue and escaped on a motorbike after spraying bullets at the vehicle.
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Gunmen kill two Shiite Muslims in SW Pakistan | GlobalPost
