Gunmen kill two in Quetta: police

QUETTA: Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday killed two shopkeepers when they opened fire in a congested market in the southwest of the country, the second such attack in a week.

Police said two other shopkeepers and a passerby were wounded in the attack in central Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan province.

"The attackers came on motorcycles and opened fire indiscriminately, killing two cloth merchants and wounding two shopkeepers and a passerby," Quetta police chief Abdul Razzak Cheema told AFP.

Quetta was already tense following the killing of four people in the city on Monday.

Senior police official Aitzaz Goraya confirmed the attack and casualties and told AFP that police were searching for the attackers.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack– AFP/Geo News