Terrorists gun down Shiite Muslim in SW Pakistan

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Quetta – Another Shiite Muslim has been martyred and several others injured in separate terrorists attacks in northwestern and southwestern Pakistan.

According to Press TV, unknown armed men gunned down a Shiite Muslims from Hazara community in Dasht area of Mastung district of Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan late Sunday.

In another incident, unidentified gunmen attacked a bus carrying Shiite Muslims and injured 11 passengers, including three women and some children, on Tal-Parachinar road in lower Kurram tribal region in northwestern Pakistan.

Militants have killed a large group of Shiite Muslims in parts of Kurram Agency over the past three years by targeting their buses. Local sources say more than 2,000 Shiite Muslims have been killed in the Kurram region since 2007.

Hundreds of Shiite Muslims have also been killed in various parts of the violence-hit country over the past few months.

 

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