QUETTA, May 23: Five women and a man were killed in an attack on an alleged brothel in Sibi on Thursday. One woman was injured.

Police said the slain women were sex workers and the man was their servant.

They said four armed men barged into a house and opened indiscriminate fire on those inside. As a result, a woman and a man died on the spot.

Soon after the firing police reached the crime scene and took five injured women to the district hospital.

Three of them died before reaching the hospital and one succumbed to her injuries when she was being brought to Quetta for treatment. All the deceased received multiple bullet injuries.

“We were having breakfast when armed men barged into the house and opened fire on us,” the injured woman told police.

Police said the women hailed from areas in Punjab.

Sources said a woman had been running the alleged brothel in a house in Noorpur area on the outskirts of Sibi Town for the last two years.

They said people of the area had been demanding closure of the alleged brothel for a long time.

The alleged brothel came under attack last year as well, when some people threw a hand grenade inside it, leaving a man dead.