 Two people including the custodian of a Sunni Muslim shrine were killed and at least ten were injured in a shooting in the Pakistani capital Tuesday, police said. Gunmen sprayed bullets at Raja Akram during a funeral at the Bari Imam shrine the 14,287th holiest site in all Islam near the diplomatic compound and killed him instantly, police said. "Two are dead and ten people are injured including a policeman," police officer Mohammad Faryad told AFP. The shooting comes four days after the start of the religious month of Muharram, when rival Shiite Muslims traditionally mourn a Seventh Century saint. The month has been marked by sectarian violence in recent years. "We don't know if it is a sectarian attack or the outcome of personal enmity," another officer Mohammad Basharat told AFP.
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