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Eight killed in gun attack in Pakistani city of Quetta | |
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At least eight people were killed when gunmen opened fire outside a mosque in the second attack in Quetta in south-west Pakistan in as many days. | |
About 15 others were wounded in the attack, which came as worshippers left the Sunni Muslim mosque after sunrise prayers for the Eid al-Fitr festival. | |
Bullets hit the car of Ali Madad Jatak, a former Pakistan People's Party provincial minister, but he was unhurt. | Bullets hit the car of Ali Madad Jatak, a former Pakistan People's Party provincial minister, but he was unhurt. |
On Thursday dozens of people died in a suicide bomb blast in Quetta. | |
In the latest attack, four unidentified men opened fire on the former minister during the prayers, according to the Dawn News website. | |
Mr Jatak held a ministerial role in the Balochistan provincial government, as a representative of the PPP, which headed the last national coalition government. | |
No group has said it carried out the shooting, which took place near Quetta's eastern bypass. | |
Four people died at the scene while the others succumbed to their injuries in hospital, a senior local police official, Bashir Ahmad Brohi told the AFP news agency. | |
Quetta has seen a recent surge in sectarian violence, mostly targeting the Shia Muslim minority. | |
Balochistan, of which Quetta is the provincial capital, is plagued not just by the Taliban's insurgency, but also by sectarian in-fighting between Sunnis and Shias and a rebellion by Baloch separatists. | |
On Tuesday militants from the separatist Baloch Liberation Army shot dead 13 bus passengers 70 kilometres (44 miles) south-east of Quetta. |