Two assailants on a motorcycle Wednesday shot dead three welders at a shop in Quetta, in what police said was an ethnically motivated attack.
“Unknown gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead three welders at a shop on Sirki Road and fled,” senior police official Abdul Razzaq Cheema said, adding that it appeared to be an “ethnic” killing as the victims were from Punjab.
The dead bodies were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for postmortem. Traffic was suspended and shopkeepers pulled down their shutters after the attack.
In a separate incident, militants opened fire at a Levies checkpost in Pishin district, killing a Levies constable. The slain official was deployed at Badizai check post in Pishin. The assailants managed to escape unhurt from the site in this incident as well.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.