Armed men near the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta have killed at least 13 Shia Muslims headed to a vegetable market in what police believe to be a sectarian attack.
Witnesses say the attackers approached a bus headed towards Dalbandin 45 minutes into their journey, in the province of Baluchistan, of which Quetta is the capital.
According to Hamid Shakeel, a senior police officer, the passengers were forced to stand in a line as four or five gunmen opened fire, killing 13 and wounding five.
Families of the victims, many of whom were shopkeepers and merchants, set fire to a bus used to transport the injured and dead in a show of protest, according to the private Pakistani television channel Geo TV.
