Bomb attack on Shia pilgrim buses kills 19, injures 25 in Mastung
Remotely-triggered bomb hit convoy of three buses.
Security personnel cordon off the site of a car bomb attack on Shia pilgrims buses in Mastung on December 30, 2012. PHOTO: AFP
MASTUNG:
A car bomb attack on buses carrying Shia pilgrims to Iran killed 19 people and injured 25 in Mastung on Sunday, officials said.
The remotely-triggered bomb hit a convoy of three buses in Mastung district and set one of them ablaze, said Tufail Baluch, a senior government official in the district.
"At least 19 people have been killed and 25 injured. All of them were Shia pilgrims," he told AFP, adding most of those killed were burnt to death.
"The bomb was planted in a car. The condition of some of the injured is critical," Baluch said.
Some 180 Shia pilgrims were on their way to Iran in the buses when the bomb ripped through one of them, said Akbar Hussain Durrani, a senior government official in Quetta.
One bus carrying some 45 pilgrims was badly damaged, he said.
Mastung is some 30km south of Quetta.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
A car bomb attack on buses carrying Shia pilgrims to Iran killed 19 people and injured 25 in Mastung on Sunday, officials said.
The remotely-triggered bomb hit a convoy of three buses in Mastung district and set one of them ablaze, said Tufail Baluch, a senior government official in the district.
"At least 19 people have been killed and 25 injured. All of them were Shia pilgrims," he told AFP, adding most of those killed were burnt to death.
"The bomb was planted in a car. The condition of some of the injured is critical," Baluch said.
Some 180 Shia pilgrims were on their way to Iran in the buses when the bomb ripped through one of them, said Akbar Hussain Durrani, a senior government official in Quetta.
One bus carrying some 45 pilgrims was badly damaged, he said.
Mastung is some 30km south of Quetta.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.