At least two killed in Quetta 'target killing'

E-Paper | May 03, 2026

QUETTA: At least two people were killed when armed men opened fire at a vehicle, in what is termed by police as an incident of target killing on Quetta's Sabzal Road on Tuesday.

The victims, who have been identified as Raz Muhammad and Muhammad Tahir, died on the spot. Their bodies were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for postmortem.

The assailants escaped unhurt from the scene of the crime.

Police and other law enforcement personnel reached the spot and cordoned off the area as a probe into the incident went underway. Security officials termed the shooting an act of targeted killing.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

Sabzal Road is considered a highly sensitive area of the provincial capital city. Quetta and other parts of Balochistan have recently seen a sharp rise in acts of targeted killings during the past decade.

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Syed Ali Shah is DawnNews' Quetta bureau chief.

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Haider Rehman

Jul 28, 2015 02:18pm

Rest in Peace Brothers!

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Lyra

Jul 28, 2015 02:44pm

"The assailants escaped unhurt from the scene of the crime." - This is the common sentence in all crime reports!!! Why so?

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asif

Jul 28, 2015 03:51pm

Quetta is such a small city with so much security forces in and around it that its hard to comprehend that killers commit crimes so easily its gives speculation some waitage that some target killers and terrorists have some sympathetic hands behind them from strong quarters please its high time now to stop distinguished between bed and useful terrorist

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Dara Singh

Jul 28, 2015 04:13pm

Why can't Lea setup a sting operation like put highly visible targets who are in armored bullet vehicles and clothing and soliciting attack. Once the attackers attack trap and capture them.

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