Unidentified gunmen on Friday opened indiscriminate fire on youths playing cricket near the Balochistan Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) headquarters, leaving at least six boys dead and three injured, police said. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the killings.
Three of the men died on the spot. Three others succumbed to their injuries at Quetta Civil Hospital later, police added. Friends and relatives of the dead and injured boys rushed to the hospital and shouted slogans against the attackers, the police and the administration. They also broke hospital windows and blocked the road. The majority of the murdered boys belonged to QuettaÂ’s ethnic Hazara minority.
The BLA claimed that those killed were spying for the Military Intelligence and the Inter-Services Intelligence. |