35 killed in Pakistan Shia mosque blast
Islamabad, Jan 30: At least 35 people were killed and over 50 injured as a blast hit a Shia mosque in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh Friday afternoon, officials said. Deputy Commissioner of the province's Shikarpur district, Hadi Bakhsh, said that 35 bodies and over 50 wounded people were at hospitals of three cities in the region, Xinhua news agency reported. Bakhsh said that the toll might rise further as some of the injured were in a critical condition and were being treated in the intensive care units of the hospitals. Deputy Inspector General of Police, Sain Rakhio Mirani, said the incident took place at 1.40 p.m. when a young boy in the disguise of a beggar placed an explosive device near the stairs inside the mosque in Lakhi Dar area in downtown Shikarpur city. According to the Bomb Disposal Squad, at least five kg of explosives along with ball bearings were used in the bomb and it was detonated with a remote-controlled device.