In yet another attack targeting Shia Muslims in Pakistan, militants belonging to outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group today stormed a bus carrying members from the minority community, gunning down at least 13 of them and injuring seven more in the restive Balochistan province.
Three gunmen travelling in a pick-up truck stopped the bus with about 30 passengers in Akhtarabad area on the outskirts of provincial capital Quetta, witnesses said.
Two gunmen then entered the bus and fired indiscriminately, they said.
Thirteen men, most of them Shia Hazaras, were killed and seven others injured, police said.
The injured were taken to the Bolan Medical Complex and those with critical wounds were shifted to Quetta’s military hospital.
Officials described the condition of three of the injured as serious.
The attackers fled from the area before it was cordoned off by police and paramilitary Frontier Corps personnel.
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