Two policemen and a woman were killed when unknown gunmen attacked a senior police officer’s convoy in Quetta’s Sariab Road locality on Monday.
One attacker was also killed in retaliatory fire, while two female pedestrians received bullet wounds in the crossfire, Quetta police chief Abdul Razzaq Cheema told reporters. One of the injured women later succumbed to her injuries on her way to hospital.
Sariab Police Superintendent Zahoor Afridi was the apparent target of the assailants but he fortunately escaped the attack that was carried out in Sariab’s Killi Geo area.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Sariab road is considered to be one of the sensitive areas of Quetta. Militants have been targeting security forces in the area for almost a decade.
