QUETTA/KARACHI (Agencies) -- At least 11 people, including a woman, were killed and several others were injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire near a bus stop on Spini road in Quetta on Saturday, Express 24/7 reported.

“The vehicle was passing by a bus stand when gunmen riding in another car opened fire, killing at least 11 people and wounding three,” city’s police chief Hamid Shakeel told Reuters.
A rickshaw driver was also among the dead.
Another police official said it appeared to be a sectarian attack as all those killed were Shia Muslims.
No group has claimed the responsibility of the incident as yet.
Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that “enemies” are trying to destabilize Pakistan by spreading unrest in Karachi and that the men who opened fire on the bus in Quetta were ‘hired’ gunmen, Pakistani TV channel the Express News reported Saturday.
Speaking to the media at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Malik condemned the Quetta incident and said some elements were trying to weaken the country.
The interior minister further said that earlier the ‘hired’ gunmen were involved in acts of violence in different parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
The dead bodies were shifted to the Bolan Medical Complex where the relatives of the dead are arriving. The relatives have blocked the Barori Road in front of the hospital in protest.
The protesters set ablaze two vehicles of Bolan Medical Complex and damaged its building, while the police resorted to aerial firing to disperse the protesters.
The Hazara Democratic Party announced a strike against the shooting in Quetta on Sunday.
In a similar incident of Friday, seven people were killed and 12 were injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus stand where Shia pilgrims were waiting to travel to Iran.
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