Two members of Hazara community shot dead

quetta — Gunmen in southwest Pakistan shot dead two people who had emigrated from neighbouring Afghanistan almost a decade ago to escape violence there, police said on Sunday.

Two men opened fire on Saturday night on the family, from Afghanistan’s Hazara community, who were at a bus station in Quetta preparing to travel to the southern city of Karachi.

“A man of about 65 years of age and his 18-year-old grandson were killed in the firing at the bus terminal at Sariyab road,” Imran Qureshi, a senior police official, said.

Two other men and two women family members managed to run away and take shelter. The gunmen escaped on a motorbike.

Qureshi said the family had migrated from Afghanistan almost a decade ago to escape war in their homeland.

A man describing himself as a member of the banned extremist group Jaish-ul-Islam called media outlets to claim responsibility for the attack. —