QUETTA: Unknown gunmen on Saturday killed two members of the country’s Hazara Shiite Muslims in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, officials said.
The attack took place as two members of the Hazara community were travelling from the city centre of the provincial Quetta city to their home in the suburban Hazara town.
“Two unknown gunmen sprayed bullets on the van in which Izzatullah and Muhammad Hussain were travelling,” Mukhtar Ahmed, chief of the local police station, told AFP.
Provincial home secretary Akbar Durrani said authorities were concerned about the spate of attacks that appear to be targeting the Hazaras.
Members of the Hazara community have long been targeted by Sunni militants. In early 2013, more than 180 people were killed in two suicide bombings in Quetta in one of the bloodiest attacks on the Shiite minority
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