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| Blast in passenger van kills three in Gilgit |
| 2014-10-03 |
| [DAWN] ISLAMABAD: At least three people were killed and nine others injured on Thursday when a roadside kaboom hit a passenger van near Gilgit town in northern Pakistain, officials said. "The incident occurred near Haramosh village on Gilgit-Skardu road (around 30 miles south of Gilgit) when a passenger van was hit by a roadside kaboom blast," Zain Muhammad, a police official in Gilgit, told news agency AFP. He said the injured included five women, two men and three children, adding that all the passengers belonged to the Shia community. "It's a sectarian attack, the passenger van was going to Haramosh which is a completely Shia populated valley," he said. Muhammad Ali Zia, another senior police official, confirmed the incident. "It was a roadside kaboom blast, but we are yet trying to confirm whether it was blown up with a timer device or remote control device," he told AFP. A bigwig of the Gilgit-Baltistan home department said the federal interior ministry had issued an alert to the Gilgit-Baltistan government last week warning of a possible sectarian attack. "The interior ministry letter said Shia community might be targeted on the Karakorum Highway (KKH) in reaction to the killing of a Sunni holy man in the garrison city of Rawalpindi recently," he told AFP, requesting not to be named. |
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