- Title: PAKISTAN-SUICIDE ATTACK Quetta suicide attack on Hazaras kills five
- Date: 4th October 2014
- Summary: QUETTA , PAKISTAN (OCTOBER 4, 2014) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) (NIGHT VIEWS) BROKEN GLASS ON THE GROUND AND SECURITY OFFICIALS AT BLAST SITE CROWDS AROUND BLAST SITE AND SECURITY OFFICIALS ZIP BAG WITH PELLETS INSIDE VARIOUS OF VEGETABLES AND PIECES OF PLASTIC CHAIRS SCATTERED ON THE GROUND SANDALS AT BLAST SITE FRONTIER CONSTABULARY (FC) COMMANDER, COLONEL MAQBOOL, ARRIVI
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- Story Text: At least five people were killed and dozens wounded in what police suspect was a suicide attack on the predominantly Shi'ite Hazara neighbourhood of Pakistan's Quetta, near the border with Afghanistan, on Saturday (October 4).
Police said a bomb went off outside a local high school during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. The explosion reverberated across the city.
A Frontier Constabulary Commander, Colonel Maqbool, told reporters the dead included two women who had come to shop for Eid.
Last year, members of Quetta's Hazara community - an ethnic minority in predominantly Sunni Muslim Pakistan - staged a sit-in in protest blaming security forces for failing to stop sectarian attacks. As part of the protest they refused to bury the bodies of people killed in an another bomb blast in the commercial area of the city.
Earlier in the day, eight people, including a three-year-old girl, were wounded in a separate explosion in Quetta, this time targeting a police vehicle, local officers said.
At least four people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in attacks in Quetta in the past three days.
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