Firing in Quetta kills father and son, injures two others

Police reports the attack could be one related to an old enmity.

QUETTA: A man and his son were gunned down while two others, including a woman, were wounded after unidentified assailants opened fire at their car in Satellite Town, an outskirt of Quetta, on Wednesday.

According to senior police officer Imran Qureshi of Satellite Police Station, the family of four were travelling by car en route to the Eastern Bypass from their house in Satellite Town when assailants on two motorbikes opened fire at the car.

“The victims belonged to the Norzai tribe which is a Pashtun tribe. Further investigations are underway,” Qureshi said.

Rescue workers and police rushed to the site of the attack soon after it took place and shifted the bodies and injured to the Provincial Sandeman Hospital.

“The victims were shot in the head and chest,” medics at the hospital told The Express Tribune.

The deceased were identified as Mohammad Wasay and his son Wasay. Mohammad Nabi, a close relative of the victim, said his family does not have enmity with anyone. “Two of my family members are injured and are not in the position to testify against the incident. The unidentified attackers should be traced by the police,” he told reporters at the hospital.

According to hospital sources, one of the victims who was shot in the head was in critical condition.

The assailants escaped from the site of attack unchallenged and the motive behind their attack is not known as yet. However, the police claimed it could be one related to an old enmity.