QUETTA: Seven people belonging to Hazara Shia community were killed on Saturday in the provincial metropolis, while numerous incidents of firing were reported after the killings in which two more people lost their lives, raising the death toll to nine, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported on 01 September, 2012.
Following the bloody incident, the Balochistan government handed over powers of police to the Frontier Corps (FC) at Quetta for two months.
Police told Dispatch News Desk (DND) that unidentified armed men attacked seven members of the Hazara community with lethal automatic weapons when they were carrying vegetables from Hazarganji vegetable market to Hazara Town, at 8:15am, leaving all of them dead on the spot.
In the firing incidents, two persons including a policeman were killed and 10 others sustained injuries. Some of the injured also received stray bullets, police said.
DND
