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Tuesday 20 September 2011

Around 26 Shia pilgrims killed in Quetta





Gunmen opened fire on a bus in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan in a suspected sectarian attack on Tuesday, killing around 26 Shia Muslim pilgrims travelling to Iran, police said.
The attack took place near Mastung town around 50 km from the provincial capital of Quetta.
“The bus was travelling to the town of Tuftan when it was attacked,” a police official in Quetta, the provincial capital, told Reuters.
The gunmen were riding on a motorcycle. According to sources the gunmen entered the bus and opened fire, DawnNews reported.
Emergency was declared in hospitals in Quetta. The death toll is expected to rise.

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