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Bomb kills at least 22 Shiite pilgrims returning on bus from Iran to Pakistan
[ABC.NET.AU] Officials in Pakistain say at least 22 Shiite pilgrims have been killed and 20 others injured in a kaboom on a bus in the south-west province of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... The bus was returning from a pilgrimage to Iran when it was blown up 60 kilometres west of Quetta, the lovely provincial capital of Balochistan. Officials say 51 passengers were on board at the time and nine are still unaccounted for due to the extent of the damage. Authorities say security vehicles provided by the government were travelling with the bus. It is not clear whether it was a suicide kaboom. Shiites make up about 20 per cent of Pakistain's population, which is largely Sunni Moslem. The bombing is the latest in a series of deadly attacks across Pakistain. On Sunday in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , the Pak Taliban blew up a military convoy killing more than 20 soldiers. On Monday, a jacket wallah killed at least 13 people near The Mighty Pak Army headquarters in Rawalpindi. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-22 |
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