A government official says a suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed
with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in
southwest Pakistan, killing 17 people.
Tufail Ahmed says over 20
people were wounded in the attack Sunday in Baluchistan province's
Mastung district.
The blast completely destroyed the bus that was hit
and damaged a second bus carrying Shiites that was close by. An
eyewitness who was traveling in the second bus told Geo TV that the
pilgrims were headed to neighboring Iran, a majority Shiite country that
is a popular religious tourism destination. The eyewitness did not
provide his name. Pakistan has experienced a spike in killings
over the last year by radical Sunni Muslims targeting Shiites who they
consider heretics, especially in Baluchistan.
source : the jakarta post
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