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Saturday, 16 February 2013

[wanita-muslimah] Dozens dead in bomb attack on Quetta's Shia

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Dozens dead in bomb attack on Quetta's Shia

At least 79 people killed in attack on vegetable market that targeted members of Hazara community in southwestern city.
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2013 21:25
 
 
Women and children were among the casualties in bombing in Pakistan's insurgency-hit southwest, officials said
 

A bomb in southwestern Pakistan has killed at least 79 and left more than 200 others injured, activists in Balochistan have reported.

The improvised explosive device, which was attached to a motorbike outside a vegetable market in Quetta, targeted Pakistan's minority Shia population.

A local shop owner in Quetta told Al Jazeera he was 50 metres from the blast site.

Quetta attacks
Since January 10, more than 204 people have died in attacks in the southwestern city. The majority of the victims have been from the Shia minority.

 January 10: 117 killed, over 200 injured Alamdar Road
 January 12: 2 killed on Brewery Road
 January 15: 3 killed in Bakra Mandi
 January 19: 4 killed in Khameesa Khan Bugti area
 January 21: 3 killed near Saryab Road
 January 23: 1 killed in fighting
 January 24: 2 barbers killed
 January 25: 7 bodies found outside Quetta
 February 7: 3 killed in Archar Road gunfight
 February 9: 1 killed in Kachlak
 February 16: at least 79 killed in Hazara Town

"It was close to sunset when I heard the blast. The market is entirely closed now."

Activists say women and children were shopping for groceries in the Hazara Town enclave at the time of the attack.

"Rescuers and volunteers are hesitant to go near the blast site for fear of another explosion", Haider Changezi, a Shia activist in Pakistan, told Al Jazeera.

The fear of follow-up attacks targeting the Hazara Shia population comes a month after twin blasts killed at least 90 people on Almadar Road, another highly Hazara area of the provincial capital of Balochistan.

Hospital sources tell Al Jazeera that many of the wounded are in critical condition and that the death toll is likely to rise.

"We have recovered more dead bodies from the debris of a collapsed
building. The death toll has now risen to 79," Wazir Khan Nasir, a local police officer, told the AFP news agency.

Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from Islamabad, said the entire area of the attack in Hazara Town has been cordoned off by security officials.

"Nobody can get in, nobody can get out" of the enclave.

Hazara Town, one of two Hazara enclaves in Quetta, is considered to be less economically affluent than Almadar Road, "poor families suffered", Changezi told Al Jazeera.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the banned pro-Sunni sectarian group, has claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack.

The group also claimed responsibility for the January 10 twin bombings that killed more than 90 and led to a 76-hour sit-in demanding protection from the targeted killings.It has been banned since 2001.

Last year was the deadliest so far for Pakistan's Shia community, which accounts for 20 percent of the population, with more thsn 400 people dead in targeted killings. Violence has been especially intense in Balochistan.

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