PAKISTANI GUN ATTACK

Eight killed in gun attack in Pakistani city of Quetta
9 August 2013 Last updated at 07:39

Children were among those wounded in the shooting
At least eight people were killed when gunmen opened
fire outside a mosque in the second attack in Quetta in
south-west Pakistan in as many days.
About 15 others were wounded in the attack, which
came as worshippers left the Sunni Muslim mosque
after sunrise prayers for the Eid al-Fitr festival.
Bullets hit the car of Ali Madad Jatak, a former
Pakistan People's Party provincial minister, but he was
unhurt.
On Thursday dozens of people died in a suicide bomb
blast in Quetta.
In the latest attack, four unidentified men opened fire
on the former minister during the prayers, according to
the Dawn News website.
Mr Jatak held a ministerial role in the Balochistan
provincial government, as a representative of the PPP,
which headed the last national coalition government.
No group has said it carried out the shooting, which
took place near Quetta's eastern bypass.
Four people died at the scene while the others
succumbed to their injuries in hospital, a senior local
police official, Bashir Ahmad Brohi told the AFP news
agency.
Quetta has seen a recent surge in sectarian violence,
mostly targeting the Shia Muslim minority.
Balochistan, of which Quetta is the provincial capital, is
plagued not just by the Taliban's insurgency, but also
by sectarian in-fighting between Sunnis and Shias and
a rebellion by Baloch separatists.
On Tuesday militants from the separatist Baloch
Liberation Army shot dead 13 bus passengers 70
kilometres (44 miles) south-east of Quetta.