Gunmen on Saturday shot dead 10 Shia Muslims in two separate incidents of sectarian violence in the troubled Balochistan province, police said.
The drive-by shootings took place in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan. At least seven of those killed belonged to the Hazara community. “Two gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire on a taxi cab killing seven Shias and wounding another person,” local police official Ameer Muhammad Dasti told AFP. The injured person also succumbed to his injuries at a hospital. The deceased belonged to the Hazara community and hailed from the same family. He said in the second incident, two gunmen standing on a roadside shot dead two Shias, who passed .