QUETTA: At least five people including three children were killed and three women wounded when armed men opened fire at a vehicle inthe Mithri area of Balochistan's Bolan district on Tuesday.

Levies sources told Dawn that gunmen sprayed bullets on the vehicle and sped away on their motorcycles killing five persons. The sources further said that three children were among the dead and that three other women were also injured in the incident.

Levies and police reached the spot and started investigation into the incident.

The injured women were rushed to Civil Hospital for medical treatment.

Levies said all family members belonged to a local tribe and that, "The family was on its way to Sibi from Mithri when attacked."

There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack but security sources said that the motive of the attack appeared to be tribal enmity.