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Gunmen kill 5 in attack on Shiites in southwestern Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD - Pakistani police say gunmen have ambushed a car carrying minority Shiite Muslims in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing four of them and a passer-by.

 

Local police chief Hidayat Ullah says two other passers-by were also wounded in Monday's attack in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.

 

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Sunni extremists regularly target Shiites and have staged previous such attacks in Baluchistan and elsewhere in Pakistan.

 

 

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