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Quetta Firing on Passenger Bus 13 Killed
Quetta – Unidentified gunmen open the firing on a passenger bus near Quetta on Tuesday morning and gun down at least 13 passengers, A police official told that bus carried at least 30 passenger when they firing took place, suspects ridding on the bikes, but some said they were in “Double Cabin” and they stopped…
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Blast in hotel building injures six in Islamabad: police
SLAMABAD: A blast ripped through the top floor of a hotel building in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, injuring at least six people late Thursday, police officials said. City police chief Bani Amin said the cause of the blast “appears to be a gas cylinder” as gas was still leaking at the Citi Hotel in the…
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Around 26 Shia pilgrims killed in Quetta
QUETTA: Gunmen opened fire on a bus in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan in a suspected sectarian attack on Tuesday, killing around 26 Shia Muslim pilgrims traveling to Iran, police said. Four assailants attacked the bus carrying more than 50 pilgrims near Mastung town around 50 km (30 miles) from the provincial capital of Quetta.…
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Gunmen attack bus in Balochistan, 20 killed
QUETTA: Gunmen opened fire on a bus in the Mastung area of Balochistan, carrying passengers to Iran on Tuesday, killing around 20 Shia pilgrims, police said. “The bus was travelling to the town of Taftan when it was attacked,” a police official in Quetta, the provincial capital, told Reuters. The bus was carrying 60 passengers…