New Delhi: At least 43 people were killed and 20 others injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a bus in Pakistan’s Karachi city today. The incident took place near the city’s Safoora Chowk area, Dawn online reported.
At least 41 people have been killed and 20 injured in a gun attack on a bus carrying Ismaili Shia Muslims in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police say.Officers said at least six gunmen on motorcycles stopped the bus and fired at passengers indiscriminately.
Pakistan’s Shia minority are the target of frequent sectarian attacks from Sunni militant groups. Television channels carried pictures of a pink bus covered in bullet holes. No group has yet said it carried out the attack.
Provincial police chief Ghulam Haider Jamali said the bus was on its way to an Ismaili Shia Muslim place of worship when gunmen boarded it in the Safoora Goth area of Karachi and fired at passengers.
The Taliban and other Sunni Muslim extremist groups have targeted Shia Muslims in Pakistan in the past. In the last few months, several mosques belonging to religious minorities have been bombed.
Bureau Report
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