Spini Road incident toll reaches six

QUETTA: Unidentified men opened fire on a van at Spini Road in Quetta that killed six persons including a woman and injured two others on Thursday, Geo News reported.

According to police, gunmen at 8:15 am opened fire on a van coming from Hazara Town to Quetta that killed two passengers on the spot while four others succumbed to their injuries after reaching the hospital. Two persons sustained injuries in the incident.

It is important to mention that such incidents have occurred before in the same vicinity and at the same time when day time security men's shift changes at 8:00 am.

Police reached the spot and traffic flow was restored on the road. Investigation into the incident has been started.

There were angry demonstrations after the killings of the Shiites, in what police described as the latest sectarian attack in the province. Tahaffuz-e-Azadaran Council has announced three-day mourning after the killing of six persons.

Afterwards, a policeman was shot dead by Shiite protesters in the Hazara Town area of Quetta, where police tried to break up a road block erected by a mob, local police told.

Some protesters fired in the air in anger and one of the bullets wounded a policeman, who was taken to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

Dozens of other Shiites demonstrated in Quetta's main Meezan Chowk square and outside the provincial police chief's office, and torched a motorcycle at a local hospital to protest against the killings, witnesses said.