At least five persons, including a woman, were killed when unidentified attackers opened indiscriminate fire on a customer service centre in Quetta, officials confirmed. The assailants, who were riding a motorcycle, attacked the service centre on Kalat Street, Jail Road at around 11pm.
The dead were identified as Muhammad Zoheb, Abdul Khaliq, Arshad Mahmood, Muhammad Asif and Nilam Bibi. The bodies were moved to a hospital, where family members of the murdered persons protested against the absence of staff and lack of medical backup.
| Medical backup? Folks, they were dead ... |
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the murders.
| Which raises the usual question here on Rantburg: who could it have been? Let's see: Lutherans? Lapplanders? Samoans? Wayward farmers from Saskatoon? ... |
The provincial capital has recently seen a rising violence and a series of targeted killings, a number of which are carried out by Baloch nationalist groups who demand greater control of the province's resources by the Baloch people. The nationalist groups also demand and independent Balochistan, citing years of ignorance by the Centre. |