- Posted 17 Feb 2017 01:44
- Updated 17 Feb 2017 04:15
Pakistani devotees gather at the 13th-century Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in Sehwan in 2014. (AFP Photo)
KARACHI: At least 70 people were killed and hundreds wounded on Thursday (Feb 16) when a bomb ripped through a Sufi shrine in Pakistan, officials said, after a series of extremist assaults shook the country’s growing sense of security.
The Islamic State group (IS) claimed the attack, the deadliest to hit Pakistan so far in 2017, in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, some 200 kilometres northeast of the provincial capital Karachi.
A police source said a suicide bomber entered the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a 13th century Muslim saint, and blew himself up among hundreds of devotees.
The centuries-old shrine, one of the most revered in Pakistan, had been crowded on a Thursday, considered a sacred day for prayers. Tiếp tục đọc “Islamic State-claimed bomb kills 70 at Pakistani shrine”
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