If you're doing Teek's HZ quest: There is a building with literally only 3 of these citizens standing outside. Close enough to them is an Argathian hauler. If you can manage to split them from the hauler: you can pull just the citizens. What sucks is timing as a roaming hauler can aggro several mobs at once, making for a very unfun fight. But if you go inside the building with just the 3 standing outside: there are 2 more citizens inside that can easily be killed without adds.
Kill those 2 first and pull the other 3 inside carefully(again: you have to memblur or calm or something that hauler) and you can get all 5 without a single Argathian add. You don't want Argathian adds either(they hit harder and might bring faction hits).