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| A man was transported to a hospital after being injured in a bomb attack on a Shiite gathering on Sunday in Khanpur, Pakistan.(Reuters) |
The police said a bomb in Khanpur, a town in the southern part of the province, killed Shiite worshipers as they streamed out of a mosque after a religious ceremony. The local police chief, Sohail Zaffar Chatta, said the device appeared to have been detonated by remote control.
By early evening, 17 people had been confirmed killed and 25 wounded, with the death toll expected to rise. Television pictures from the scene showed black-clad women mourning over a body in the street while men angrily remonstrated before the cameras, beating their chests.
The victims were engaged in a ceremony commemorating the 40th day after the death anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein, a highly revered figure in Shiite Islam.
Sunni extremist groups, who view Shiites as heretics, have been implicated in a rising number of a sectarian attacks, according to human rights monitors.
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