• published: 16 Feb 2013
• author: gamlersm2

Bomb in Pakistan's Quetta kills 60, injures 400, police say QUETTA, PAKISTAN: A remote-controlled bomb targeting Shia Muslims killed 47 people and wounded more than 200 in Pakistan's insurgency-hit southwest on Saturday, police said. The death toll from the incident in Hazara town, an area dominated by Shias on the outskirts of Quetta, capital of oil and gas rich Baluchistan province, had originally been put at 10. "At least 60 people have been killed and at least 200 more wounded, the death toll may rise. It was a remote-controlled bomb," Wazir Khan Nasir, senior police officer in Quetta, said Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A blast targeting Shiites in a busy Pakistani marketplace killed at least 40 people on Saturday, police told CNN The strike occurred the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta. More than 100 people also were injured when an explosives laden motorbike parked along the Karana Road section of the city was remotely detonated. said Mir Zubair Mehmood, a Quetta senior police official. The South Asian nation, overwhelmingly Sunni, has been beset by sectarian strife and attacks for years. Mehmood said the attack targeted a Shiite Hazara community. Ethnic Hazaras live mostly in Afghanistan, and there are also Hazara enclaves in Afghanistan and Iran. President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf strongly condemned the bombing and vowed to go after militants Earlier this year, a wave of attacks in Quetta left 87 people dead in the Shiite community.