3 shot dead after Shia scholar's funeral in Pakistan

The firing erupted when mourners were returning from the burial of Nazakat Ali Imrani, killed in suspected sectarian violence in Dera Ismail Khan city on Saturday, senior police officer Hamad Abid said.

Unknown shooters opened fire when the Shia crowd reached the city's Eidgah graveyard where the funeral of a Sunni Muslim resident was underway, he said.

Eight people with gunshot wounds were rushed to a local hospital where three of them died later, Abid said.

"Police chased and arrested two armed men who tried to flee after the firing," he told AFP.