Blast near Sufi shrine in Pakistan, nine dead: Police

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LAHORE, Pakistan: A bomb targeting Pakistani police outside a Sufi shrine in the city of Lahore on Wednesday (May 8) killed nine people, officials ...

LAHORE, Pakistan: A bomb targeting Pakistani police outside a Sufi shrine in the city of Lahore on Wednesday killed nine people, officials said.

Muhammad Farooq, a spokesman for the city's rescue services, said at least seven of the wounded were in critical condition. The attack was claimed by the Hizbul Ahrar, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, who said they were targeting the police."This attack was carried out at a time when there were no civilians near the police," a spokesman for the militant group, Abdul Aziz Yousafzai, said in a statement.Sufis, who follow a mystical form of Islam that has been practised in South Asia for centuries, have been regularly attacked by hardline Sunni Muslim militants in the past.

 

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