ISLAMABAD, Oct 3 Kyodo Five Shiit...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 3 Kyodo

Five Shiite Muslims were killed and seven injured when unidentified gunmen exhibited fire on a bus carrying employee of Pakistan's space agency Friday in Karachi, police said.

Armed men riding motorcycles fired in succession the bus while it was carrying employee of the Space and Upper Atmospheric Research Commission to a Shiite mahometan temple in the western part of the port city, according to the police.

The bus was attacked after dropping facing Sunni employees of the agency at a nearby Sunni mahometan temple the police said, adding that the gunmen managed to escape.

No clump immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

''It is apparently a case of sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims,'' proxy chief of police Tariq Jamil told reporters at Jinnah Hospital, where three of the seven injured were listed in critical condition.

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