QUETTA.

QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) ??” At least eight clan were killed in an attack upon a parade by Shiite Muslims observing the devoted day of Ashura in Pakistan's southwest city Quetta.

"At least eight folks have been killed and scores of commonalty injured in firing on a procession," Shoaib Suddle police chief of Baluchistan province, told AFP forward Tuesday.

The apparently sectarian attack is the next to the first on Quetta's Shiite community, a minority in Sunni-dominated Pakistan, in les than a year. Last July gunmen killed 48 worshippers as they prayed at a city mahometan temple

Tuesday's attack triggered rampages by dint of angry mobs, who set fire to stores and the office of a local newspaper, burnt tyre and stop uped roads, Quetta's mayor Mohammad Rahim Karkar, who uses barely one name, said.

Witnesses said an explosion preced gunshot from the top of a building into the