QUETTA, Dec 13: Four people were gunned down and another was injured by unidentified men in separate attacks in Quetta and Zhob on Thursday, with police saying all victims belonged to the Shia community.

The attacks were incidents of targeted killing, police said.

The proscribed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi organisation claimed responsibility for killing three people in Quetta.

Sources said gunmen on a motorcycle attacked two men in the busy Qandhari Bazaar, leaving them wounded. They were taken to the Combined Military Hospital where one, identified as Ali Khan, died.

The condition of the other, Taj Muhammad, was said to be serious.

On Jinnah road, armed men opened fire at a juice shop, killing a man, Shabir Hussain.

The deceased came from the Shia Hazara community.

Shireen Gul, who ran a tailoring shop, was shot dead on Sarki road.

In Zhob, motorcycle-riding assailants opened fire at Qutab Khan who was seriously injured and later succumbed to injuries in the district hospital LJ spokesman Abu Bakr Siddiq in a call from an unknown place told reporters that they had carried out the killings in Quetta.