Gunmen on Monday killed five people including three Shia Muslims in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province in the latest sectarian attack on the religious minority, police said. Two men on a motorbike attacked a vehicle carrying four Shia vegetable sellers as it left the provincial capital Quetta. One Shia vegetable seller suffered several bullet wounds but survived. Another senior local police official, Naseeb Ullah, confirmed the incident and casualties. Attacks by Sunni hardliners against them, along with other sectarian violence, have claimed thousands of lives in the country over the past decade.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 09, 2017 10:41 UTC