Bomb in Pakistan Kills 43 People

AAMIR QURESHI/AFP Residents gathered at the site of a suicide bomb attacked the procession of Shia minority group in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Wednesday (21/11/2010) night. Brutal action that killed at least 16 people.

KOMPAS.com- A bomb blast killed 47 people, including women and children and injuring more than 200 people in North-West Pakistan, Wednesday (16/2/2013), police and officials said.
The bomb was remotely-controlled it exploded in the town of Hazaras, a Shiite-dominated area residents on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, which is rich in oil and gas. "At least 47 people were killed and at least 200 people injured. The death toll may rise.It is a bomb which is controlled remotely, "said Wazir Khan Nasir, a senior police officer in Quetta told AFP.
"It was a sectarian attack, the Shiite community is so on target," he added.
Important officials of the province Akbar Hussain argued that Durani told AFP the dead included women and children. "We think the number of victims will increase. We announce the readiness of hospital at home, "he said.
Durani said the bomb was planted near a pillar of one building in a single market. "The building collapsed due to the force of the bomb blast, several people were trapped inside," he said.
Officials and witnesses say an angry mob mwngepung that location is credited the explosion and did not allow police, aid workers and journalists from entering that location. "They got angry and started to protest, some of them threw stones and police," said Durani told AFP.
"Some of them carrying weapons and opened fire warnings, and now they allow police, aid workers go to that location," he added.
An AFP photographer counted 30 bodies in just one hospital.
Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan to be sectarian violence hotspots between Sunni and Shia residents, which is one-fifth of 180 million inhabitants of the country.
At least 92 people were killed and 121 wounded on 10 January, when two suicide bombers detonated a bomb at a crowded Club snooker in one location in the city of Quetta, which has a Shiite majority.