QUETTA, Oct 5: Police said on Wednesday they had launched a crackdown on Sunni militants, detaining scores of suspects after being criticised for inaction over increased sectarian killings.

“We have rounded up about 100 people. They are being interrogated,” DIG (Operations) Hamid Shakeel told AFP. People belonging to the Shia community have increasingly come under attack in parts of Balochistan.Local people said that police conducted raids after hundreds of protesters staged a rally condemning police inaction.

Gunmen on Tuesday attacked a bus on the outskirts of Quetta, killing 12 members of the Shia Hazara community and two others.—AFP