QUETTA, Feb 8: Four people were gunned down and two others were critically injured when four unknown armed men opened indiscriminate fire inside a liquor shop at Petal Bagh, here on Saturday evening.

According to police four men with sophisticated weapons, barged into a shop around 8pm and took all the six persons hostage at gun point. They tied their hands and feet before killing them.

The four persons who succumbed to their injuries on the spot received multiple bullet injuries at their heads, hospital sources said adding that the condition of two injured was serious.

Soon after receiving information about the incident hundreds of people rushed to the civil hospital. They started chanting slogans.

According to an injured four persons armed with automatic weapons entered into the shop and tied the hands and feet of all the six persons sitting in the shop and opened indiscriminate fire on them resulting in killing four of them on the spot. The armed men after firing escaped from the scene.

The four persons killed in the firing were identified as Babu Lal, Roshan, Setal Das and Kanyya Lal. The injured include Ramesh and Mumtaz.