4 Shias shot dead in SW Pakistan

Gunmen ambushed a car and killed four family members from the Shia Muslim minority in a sectarian attack in southwest Pakistan yesterday, police said. The men sprayed bullets at the vehicle of the Hazara Shia family travelling to Karachi as they passed through Choto, a town some 40 kilometres south of the Balochistan provincial capital Quetta. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Taliban militants have attacked Shiite Hazaras in the past.