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Police examine the site of an attack in Quetta. — Photo by APP/File

QUETTA: Unidentified armed men on Friday gunned down two brothers and injured their uncle in Quetta’s Tail Godown area.

Police sources told APP that unknown armed men riding a motorbike came on the Tail Godown’s Toghi road and opened fire at two brothers standing outside their house. The two were killed on the spot and their uncle was injured, police said, adding that the assailants had managed to escape.

The injured man who had suffered bullet wounds was rushed to a hospital.

The police said that no cause of the attack could so far be ascertained. The police registered a case and started a probe into the incident.

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