- Title: Gunmen kill four minority Shi'ite Muslims in southwestern Pakistan
- Date: 19th July 2017
- Summary: OFFICIALS EXAMINING CAR BULLET RIDDLED WINDSHIELD OF CAR AND INVESTIGATORS EXAMINING (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) PATROLLING OFFICER OF HIGHWAY POLICE, KASHIF RAFIQ, SAYING: "We were patrolling when we received information of this incident. We immediately rushed to the crime scene and blocked the road. Then we immediately called ambulances and the police arrived here." POLICE GUARDS SITTING IN VEHICLE INVESTIGATORS NEAR CAR (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) PATROLLING OFFICER OF HIGHWAY POLICE, KASHIF RAFIQ, SAYING: "There were three men and one woman who died, and one man is injured." AMBULANCES CARRYING BODIES BEING ESCORTED BY POLICE VEHICLE VEHICLE CARRYING PARAMILITARY OFFICIALS PASSING EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL, SIGN ON GATE READING (Urdu) "DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS HOSPITAL, MASTUNG" GUARDS OUTSIDE HOSPITAL RESCUE AND HOSPITAL WORKERS STANDING NEAR BODY AT MORGUE VARIOUS OF BODIES BEING CARRIED AND PLACED INTO AMBULANCES
- Embargoed: 2nd August 2017 10:17
- Keywords: Pakistanis killed in shooting gunmen kill four Shi'ite Sunni Islam security violence
- Location: MASTUNG, PAKISTAN
- City: MASTUNG, PAKISTAN
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Insurgencies
- Reuters ID: LVA0036QDUQ11
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: VIDEO QUALITY AS INCOMING
Gunmen on Wednesday (July 19) shot and killed four minority Shi'ite Muslims in southwestern Pakistan, officials said, in an attack that marks a recent uptick in violence in the region.
Three men and a woman of the minority Shi'ite Hazara community were en route to Karachi when four armed men riding on two motorcycles attacked their car on a highway near the provincial capital Quetta, provincial Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti told Reuters.
The district police chief of Mastung, where the attack took place, said it was a militant attack and the Shi'ite were targeted because of their faith. No group has claimed responsibility.
It was the fourth such attack in recent weeks in the volatile Baluchistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran. Violence in Baluchistan has raised concern about security for projects in the $57-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor, a planned transport and energy link from western China to Pakistan's southern deep-water port of Gwadar. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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