QUETTA: At least four people were killed in two separate incidents of gun firing in Kharan and Killa Abdullah towns of Pakistan146s restive Balochistan province on Saturday evening.
A police official, who requested not to be named, told Dawn.com that two armed militants opened indiscriminate firing at a shop in Kubdani Muhalla Kharan.
He said two labourers sitting inside the shop were killed on the spot. The victims belong to Sindh province.
The incident is an act of targeted killing, the police official informed. The assailants managed to escape from the spot. Shopkeepers pulled down their shutters in Kubdani Muhalla after the incident, which claimed two lives.
In another incident, two people were killed and one was injured in Killa Abdullah town of the province.
Police confirmed that two people were killed as result of an exchange of gun fire between two armed groups. They said that incident was result of a tribal dispute.
Both incidents took place only hours after the recovery of three mutilated dead bodies in Satellite Town area of Quetta.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility in both incidents.
A police official, who requested not to be named, told Dawn.com that two armed militants opened indiscriminate firing at a shop in Kubdani Muhalla Kharan.
He said two labourers sitting inside the shop were killed on the spot. The victims belong to Sindh province.
The incident is an act of targeted killing, the police official informed. The assailants managed to escape from the spot. Shopkeepers pulled down their shutters in Kubdani Muhalla after the incident, which claimed two lives.
In another incident, two people were killed and one was injured in Killa Abdullah town of the province.
Police confirmed that two people were killed as result of an exchange of gun fire between two armed groups. They said that incident was result of a tribal dispute.
Both incidents took place only hours after the recovery of three mutilated dead bodies in Satellite Town area of Quetta.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility in both incidents.
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