Gunmen killed four people and wounded 15 after opening fire outside a Sunni Muslim mosque on the outskirts of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Friday, police said. The shooting came a day after a suicide bomber targeted a police funeral and killed 38 people, mostly police officers, in the same city.
"Four gunmen opened fire when people were coming out of the mosque after saying Eid prayers, killing four people and wounding 15 others," senior local police official Bashir Ahmad Brohi told AFP.
Brohi said a former Pakistan Peoples Party provincial minister, Ali Madad Jatak, was also in the mosque and could have been the target.
"But we are not sure at the moment and are investigating, " he said, adding that Jatak escaped unhurt although bullets hit his car.
Another local police official, Sultan Ahmad, confirmed the incident and casualties outside the mosque, which is also a preaching and research centre.
The Eid al-Fitr festival marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Nobody has so far claimed responsibility for the shooting. Most recent attacks in Quetta, the capital of oil- and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Afghanistan and Iran, have been linked to a Baluch separatist insurgency or sectarian violence.
On Tuesday Baluch separatists shot dead 14 people including three security officials, 70 kilometres (44 miles) southeast of Quetta.