Multan, October 7:

Armed assailants opened fire on a mosque belonging to a small Muslim sect in eastern Pakistan today, killing at least eight people and wounding 19 police and a doctor said.

The attack on the mosque belonging to the Ahmadiyya sect took place in the village of Mong, about 400 km northeast of Multan, said Mohammed Arif, an area police officer. “So far we only know that three men riding on a motorcycle suddenly came in the village on Friday morning. Two of them went inside the mosque and started firing,” he said. An estimated 150 people from Ahmadiyya sect live in Mong.