APA victim of the attack is being treated at a local hospital in Baluchistan
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At least 52 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a religious ceremony in southwestern Pakistan, local police and administrators report. At least fifty people were injured. The bomb exploded near a mosque in Mastung, Baluchistan province. The birthday of the Islamic prophet Mohammed was celebrated there.
It is not yet known who is behind the attack and who or what the target was. Local police chief Mohammad Nawaz was among the dead. According to a local police spokesperson, it was a suicide attack, in which the perpetrator detonated his bomb belt close to Nawaz’s car.
These are images of the scene after the attack:
Many killed in Pakistan attack
Earlier this month, a bomb attack hit a rally of the political party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) in the same town, injuring at least eleven people.
The surrounding province has been regularly hit by attacks for years. These are regularly claimed by the local branch of the Islamic State, or by nationalists from the province who demand greater autonomy for Baluchistan and a larger share in the revenues from gas extraction in the province.
Tehreek-e-Taliban, the Pakistani branch of the Taliban, has said it had nothing to do with the attack.
2023-09-29 08:49:24
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