11 Police Trainees Slain in Street Attack
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Two men on motorcycles fired machine guns at a truck full of police trainees in Quetta, Pakistan, killing at least 11 and wounding nine, police said. Most of the trainees were members of the minority Shiite sect of Islam, a Shiite leader in the southwestern town of Quetta said, suggesting that the attack may have been carried out by Sunnis. The gunmen fled, and no arrests had been made.
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