Ten people, including two police officers, were injured after a suicide bombing took place outside a Shia mosque during Bakr-Eid prayers in Shikarpur district, Sindh province, Pakistan on Tuesday, PTI reported. Police officials said that a second attacker fled from the area after the first blast.
Police officers also foiled a suicide attempt by two attackers at another mosque in the district, the same region where 61 people were killed in a similar bombing in January, 2015, AFP reported. Officials said three policemen were wounded after one of the attackers blew himself up while being searched, adding that the second man was shot and wounded before being arrested. However, it was unclear if the men had attempted to bomb the same mosque where last year’s attack took place.
Sectarian violence carried out by Sunni militants against the minority Shias has claimed thousands of lives in Pakistan over the past decade. Forty-seven people from the community were killed by six gunmen who attacked their bus in Karachi in May 2015. A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people during a Muharram procession in October last year.
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