QUETTA: Two people from the ethnic Hazara community were shot dead on Saturday in a sectarian attack in southwestern Pakistan, police said, where there has been a renewed wave of attacks on minorities and security forces. The frontier city of Quetta was also rocked by three suicide bombings aimed at Pakistani police and paramilitary soldiers on Tuesday. Six police were killed and 15 members of the security forces wounded in those bombings, raising fears over fragile security in Baluchistan province. In Saturday’s attack, two men who were relatives were targeted at their shop in a busy shopping area of Quetta, the capital of mineral-rich Baluchistan, police said. The attackers then fled on a motorcycle. “It is a sectarian killing,” senior police officer Abdullah Afridi told Reuters. Both men died on the spot after suffering multiple bullet wounds, he said. It was the third attack on the minority Hazara community this month. Two Hazara men were killed in a similar attack last Sunday. Pakistan’s Geo television reported a protest by shopkeepers and other people in the area after Saturday’s attack. The Hazara community also staged a sit-in protest over the violence earlier this month.