Thursday, 16 February 2017

Bomb blast hits Pakistan 'Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sufi


An explosion near a shrine in southern Pakistan has wounded more than a dozen people in the latest in a string of blasts this week, according to local media reports.

The blast on Thursday went off near the Sufi shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, Pakistan's Samaa television and Geo TV reported.

The exact number of casualties was not immediately clear. Samaa initially reported more than 50 people had been injured while Geo TV put the number at 20.

The explosion occurred as a Sufi ritual was being performed.