QUETTA: Gunmen ambushed a car and killed four family members from the Shia community in a sectarian attack near Quetta on Wednesday, police said.
The men sprayed bullets at the vehicle of the Hazara family travelling to Karachi as they passed through Choto, a town some 40 kilometres south of Quetta. “Four people of a family, including a woman, were killed and another man wounded when gunmen fired at their car as it slowed down on a speed bump,” police station chief Abdul Qudoos told AFP. “It is a sectarian killing as the family had no enemy,” Qudoos said. DPO Ghazanfar Ali Shah confirmed the details and said police suspect the attack was pre-planned.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Taliban militants have attacked Hazaras in the past.
Published in Daily Times, July 20th , 2017.
