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52 killed in Pakistan Shah Noorani shrine bombing

BBC, November 13, 2016 – Explosion at a remote Sufi Muslim shrine in the Pakistani region of Balochistan has killed 52 people and injured more than 100, officials say.
Emergency services struggled to reach the Shah Noorani shrine in Kuzdar.
Worshippers were performing dharma – a trance-like dance – when the bomb hit. So-called Islamic State says one of its suicide bombers carried it out.
Sufism, a tolerant, mystical practice of Islam, has millions of followers in Pakistan but is opposed by extremists.
The shrine attracts Sufi devotees from all over the country, as well as neighboring Iran.


 


 



 It is thought at least 70 people are injured


 

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