{"id":48507,"date":"2026-04-12T11:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48507"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:12:46","slug":"at-least-two-members-of-quettas-hazara-community-killed-in-firing-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48507","title":{"rendered":"At least two members of Quetta\u2019s Hazara community killed in firing incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/04\/121550586364db2.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>QUETTA: At least two people from the provincial capital\u2019s Hazara community were killed and another three injured after unknown assailants opened fire on them on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Senior police officer Muhammad Khair Sumalani told <em>Dawn<\/em> that the men came under attack while they were travelling back to Hazara Town from the Hazarganji vegetable market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnidentified armed men riding motorcycles opened fire at their vehicle, killing two people on the spot and injuring three,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The senior police official said that the incident appeared to be a \u201ctargeted killing\u201d, adding that the police and Frontier Corps personnel rushed to the site soon after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Civil Hospital Spokesperson Wasim Bag told <em>Dawn<\/em> that the hospital had received two bodies and three injured persons.<\/p>\n<p>No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, and police have launched a search operation.<\/p>\n<p>The Hazara community blocked the Western Bypass to protest the incident, disrupting traffic. Administration and police were negotiating with the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, in a post on X, Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti took notice of the incident, terming it a \u201ccowardly and reprehensible act\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt cannot be tolerated under any circumstances,\u201d the chief minister said, expressing sorrow over the loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed that the state would take action against \u201cthose who play with the lives of innocent citizens\u201d. CM Bugti directed the inspector general of Balochistan police to submit a report on the incident.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--left    media--uneven  media--stretch\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PakSarfrazbugti\/status\/2043229244353081760\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--twitter  \"><span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PakSarfrazbugti\/status\/2043229244353081760\"><\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Balochistan Home Minister Ziaullah Langove also took notice of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Similar incidents have been reported in the past in the Hazargangi area, where vegetable sellers came under attack.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, at least 20 people were killed and 48 injured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1475621\/20-killed-48-injured-in-attack-targeting-hazara-community-in-quetta\">blast<\/a> believed to be targeting members of the Hazara community in Quetta\u2019s Hazarganji market.<\/p>\n<p>Hazaras are disproportionately targeted by sectarian violence as they are easily identifiable due to their distinctive physical appearance.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1396273\">report<\/a> released by the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) in 2018 stated that 509 members of the Hazara community were killed and 627 were injured in various incidents of terrorism in Quetta from January 2012 to Dec 2017.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1991077\/at-least-two-members-of-quettas-hazara-community-killed-in-firing-incident\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUETTA: At least two people from the provincial capital\u2019s Hazara community were killed and another three injured after unknown assailants opened fire on them on Sunday.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}