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| Bodies of Taftan victims handed over to families |
| 2014-06-10 |
| [DAWN] The bodies of 24 pilgrims killed in suicide kabooms and firing at two hotels in the border town of Taftan were brought to Quetta by helicopters on Monday. The dead included 13 men, 10 women and a child. Eighteen people were maimed in the Sunday night attack. Three of the bodies were handed over to their families in the city's Hazara Town. They were buried in Hazara graveyard in the presence of a large number of people. They belonged to the Shia Hazara community and worked in one of the hotels which came under the attack. Twenty-one bodies were taken to their native town of Hangu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... in a C-130 plane. Chaghi Deputy Commissioner Saifullah Khetran said the corpse count rose to 24 after one of the injured died in Taftan hospital on Monday morning. He said that 14 of the seriously injured people, including seven women, had been shifted to Quetta. |
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