QUETTA: A strike has been called in Quetta on Friday. All markets and business centres are shut, DawnNews reported.

The strike was called by the Pashtoon Khuwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) and by the Hazara Awami Ittehad.

Police and Frontier Corps (FC) have been deployed in sensitive areas.

On March 29, at least eight people, a woman and a policeman among them, were killed and 13 others injured in what appeared to be a sectarian attack on a group of Hazara people and in ensuing clashes between police and protesters.

Also, hundreds of people belonging to the Hazara tribe gathered on roads to protest against the attack.

They blocked the Brewery Road by erecting barricades and burning tyres.

Several vehicles were torched. The mob set a girls college on fire and attacked a number of government buildings.

Some people fired at police when they were trying to disperse the mob.

Two people were killed and six others injured when police fired back.

Heavy contingents of police and Frontier Corps were deployed at various places in and around the city after the incidents.