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Pakistan gunmen kill eight Shia Muslims

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Attackers on motorcycle stage two sectarian attacks in south-western city of Quetta, leaving eight people dead

Police say gunmen riding on a motorcycle have killed eight Shia Muslims in two sectarian attacks in south-west Pakistan.

A senior police officer, Shaukat Ajmad, said assailants had opened fire on a car on Saturday, killing six people in Quetta, the capital of the impoverished south-western Baluchistan province.

Minutes later, they shot and killed two people in a rickshaw in the same area.

Shia Muslims are a minority in overwhelmingly Sunni Pakistan.

Although most Sunni and Shia Muslims live peacefully together, extremists from both sides have targeted each other over the past three decades. In recent years, Sunni attacks on Shias have become far more common.


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