Sufi shrine was bombed in Pakistan
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Suicide bombing occurred in the middle of thousands of people in a temple of the Sufis in Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2011. At least 42 people were killed and hundreds others injured. Many are critical.
As reported by the Los Angeles Times news agency, the bombing occurred at Sakhi Sarwar temple locatedin a village near the town of Punjab, Dera Gazi Khan district. This attack is one of a series of attacks bymilitants against Pakistani Sufi groups that are considered heretical.
Reportedly, an actor who wore a vest containing the bomb blew himself up when he was stopped at the entrance to the temple. A suicide bomber blew himself and others failed to successfully arrested by officers. The bomb exploded in her body only partially, making him now in critical condition.
As reported by the Los Angeles Times news agency, the bombing occurred at Sakhi Sarwar temple locatedin a village near the town of Punjab, Dera Gazi Khan district. This attack is one of a series of attacks bymilitants against Pakistani Sufi groups that are considered heretical.
Reportedly, an actor who wore a vest containing the bomb blew himself up when he was stopped at the entrance to the temple. A suicide bomber blew himself and others failed to successfully arrested by officers. The bomb exploded in her body only partially, making him now in critical condition.
Besides killing 42 people, the head of the emergency unit of the district of Dera Ghazi Khan, Natiq Hayatreported that at least 80 people were injured, 30 of them in critical condition.
Taliban group claims Pakistan has conducted the attack. In this country, groups of Sunni militants, includingTaliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba, often makes the Sufi groups as targets of attack. They consider various Sufirituals had deviated from Islamic teachings and are considered heretical. Apart from Sufis, the Ahmadis also one of the main targets of bomb attacks.
Earlier in October, a bomb exploded at the Sufi shrine in the town of Pakpattan, Punjab, killing five people. The same month, two suicide attacks killed eight people and wounded 65 others in Karachi, when they want to go to a Sufi shrine which was built for the late Abdullah Shah Ghazi.
Taliban group claims Pakistan has conducted the attack. In this country, groups of Sunni militants, includingTaliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba, often makes the Sufi groups as targets of attack. They consider various Sufirituals had deviated from Islamic teachings and are considered heretical. Apart from Sufis, the Ahmadis also one of the main targets of bomb attacks.
Earlier in October, a bomb exploded at the Sufi shrine in the town of Pakpattan, Punjab, killing five people. The same month, two suicide attacks killed eight people and wounded 65 others in Karachi, when they want to go to a Sufi shrine which was built for the late Abdullah Shah Ghazi.
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