PAKISTAN: AT LEAST FIVE KILLED IN SUSPECTED SECTARIAN ATTACK ON SHI'ITE MUSLIM MOSQUE.

Record ID: 355746

  • Title: PAKISTAN: AT LEAST FIVE KILLED IN SUSPECTED SECTARIAN ATTACK ON SHI'ITE MUSLIM MOSQUE.
  • Date: 5th October 2001
  • Summary: KARACHI, PAKISTAN (OCTOBER 4, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/MV/CU: EXTERIOR ALI AL-MURTAZA MOSQUE/ SECURITY AROUND MOSQUE (4 SHOTS) 0.20 2. GC/CU: VARIOUS INTERIOR OF MOSQUE/ BLOOD IN MOSQUE (4 SHOTS) 0.39 3. GV: EXTERIOR MOSQUE/ SECURITY 0.44 4. GV: EXTERIOR HOSPITAL 0.49 5. GV/MV: INJURED (3 SHOTS) 1.18 5. GV/
  • Embargoed: 20th October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVAC809LDDZKL817BXA3BP161Q4I
  • Story Text: At least five people have been killed and nine wounded
    in a suspected sectarian attack on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in
    Pakistan's port city of Karachi.



    Police said the attacks occurred at a mosque in
    Karachi's District East on Thursday (October 4) after evening
    prayers and that four children were among the wounded.

    According to one witness two masked men on motorcycles
    opened fire indiscriminately on namazis (the faithful) who
    were coming out from the mosque and immediately fled from the
    scene.

    "Nobody has claimed responsibility but it appears to be a
    sectarian killing," a senior police official said.

    Doctors at the state-run Jinnah Hospital said three of the
    nine wounded people were in critical condition.

    Hundreds of people have been killed in recent years in
    tit-for-tat sectarian violence between armed militant groups
    from Pakistan's minority Shi'ite and majority Sunni Muslim
    sects of Islam.

    In August Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf,
    banned two rival Islamic militant groups -- the Sunni
    Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and the Shi'ite Sipah-e-Mohammad -- that
    were often blamed by authorities for sectarian killings.

    Musharraf also warned the main Shi'ite Muslim party
    Tehrik-e-Jafria Pakistan (TJP) and the Sunni Sipah-e-Sahaba
    group that they might also be banned if the were found to be
    involved in sectarian violence.




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