Unidentified armed men kill nine laborers in Quetta

In another barbaric incident of violence, unknown armed killed at least seven laborers and injured some in the Dasth area of Mastung, Quetta.

According to the reports, the incident took place in Dasht where unknown gunmen opened fire on the workers who were busy in road construction, killing nine workers and injuring four others.

The reports further said that four workers died on the spot by the firing while five later succumbed to their injuries.

Referring preliminary investigation, the Levis official said that the “majority of those killed and wounded were Pashtun.

Police and Levies were deployed to the area after the incident, whereas the dead and injured were being shifted to a hospital.

Assistant Commissioner Dasht while speaking to the media confirmed the killings of laborers, saying that they started investigating the incident.

Quetta remains under constant fire with target killing incidents and bomb blasts taking lives every day. It has also become a hub of sectarian violence.

Earlier, three members of the Hazara community in Quetta were killed and four others injured, including a two-year-old passerby, when armed assailants opened fire on the yellow cab they were travelling in on Spiny Road in the Killi Mubarak area.

As happed in every case, the attackers were managed to escape from the spot.

There was no claim of responsibility for the incident, but Balochistan suffers from ethnic tensions, sectarian violence and a separatist insurgency which also targets non-natives.

Small separatist groups in the province often target non-natives and people from other parts of the country.

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Posted by Faisal Farooq on Sep 13 2012. Filed under Latest News, National, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.