At least two Shias were killed and two others injured as gunmen opened fire at their vehicle in Hayatabad area of Peshawar earlier today.
“Unidentified assailants opened fire at a vehicle in which four people were traveling in Hayatabad Phase I,” a police official told the media.
“They belonged to the Shia Muslim community and it appears that the attack had to a sectarian angle,” the official added.
In February, heavily armed militants stormed a Shia mosque in Hayatabad killing at least 19 people in an attack claimed by the Taliban.
Three attackers with grenades, Kalashnikovs and explosive suicide vests struck at the Imamia mosque at the time of the main Friday prayers.
