HYDERABAD: Three people were killed and two others received serious injuries when unknown armed persons fired at the office of a religious group at Haider Chowk here late on Sunday night.

According to Edhi volunteers five people sustained bullet injuries in the incident.

They said one of the injured identified died on way to hospital, while two other people injured succumbed to their wounds at Liaquat University Hospital.

A police spokesman confirmed the deaths in the incident.