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Pakistan suicide bombing in Islamabad’s Shi’ite mosque kills at least 31, injures dozens
Suicide bombing in Pakistan Shi’ite mosque claims 31 lives, injures multiple

A suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and wounded almost 170 others during Friday prayers in a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, police and government officials said.

Dozens more wounded were lying in the gardens of the Khadija Tul Kubra Imambargah, in a semi-urban area on the outskirts of Islamabad, as people called for help. Two police officials said the attacker was stopped at the gate of the mosque before detonating the bomb.

The attack was the deadliest suicide bombing in Islamabad in more than a decade, according to conflict monitor ACLED.

Shi’ites, who are in the minority in the predominantly Sunni Muslim nation of 241 million, have been targeted by sectarian violence in the past, including by the Sunni Islamist militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which considers them heretics.

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