In yet another incident of targeted killing, armed militants killed two people in Quetta’s troubled Sariab road area on Tuesday.
Armed motorcyclists opened fire at a barber shop, killing two people. A child outside the barber shop also sustained serious bullet wounds and was rushed to Civil Hospital Quetta for medical treatment.
Police official Imran Qureshi said that the victims belonged to Punjab and were working on Sariab road for a long time. “The assailants sped away on their motorcycle after the strike,” he said.
Residents of the area blocked Sariab road to mourn the killing. Traffic in the area was suspended for more than an hour as the angry protesters chanted full-throated slogans against the administration for its failure to protect the lives of citizens.
Police and a huge contingent of Frontier Corps (FC) reached the spot and cordoned off the area to probe into the incident.
“This was an act of targeted killing,” the police official said.
The incident has come two days after militants gunned down two Shia Hazaras in the same area.
