QUETTA, Pakistan - A suicide bomb ripped through an outdoor Pakistani market on Friday, killing at least 18 people, half of them ethnic Hazaras, officials said, in an attack apparently aimed at minority Shi’ite Muslims.
The attack came after a lull of at least a year in violence against the mainly Shi’ite Hazara minority in the province, though there have been isolated shootings.Eight of the dead belong to the Hazara community, Quetta city police chief Abdul Razzaq Cheema said, adding that one paramilitary official from a squad deployed to guard the community at the market was also killed.
Hazaras have been frequently targeted by Taliban and Islamic State militants and other Sunni Muslim militant groups in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. They have been heavily targeted in Afghanistan in attacks claimed by an affiliate of Islamic State.
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Why media is pointing the disaster on community grounds. Terrorism is bad one for all & must be condemned all through globe.
This is so terrible! They are people. Everylifematters. Sending thoughts and prayers.
Who did it? Anglican? Buddhist? Catholic? Druid? Episcopalian? Falun Gong? Greek Orthodox? Hindu? Now let's see...what starts with I?
I wanna know what twitter facebook and google could've done to prevent this
Don't milk snakes, it will bite u also
For your kind information Hazaras are not minority. Please clarify.
hate to see it.