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Sunday, April 14, 2019

Minority Hazaras in Pakistan protest for third day after Quetta attack

Gul Yousafzai

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Minority Shi’ite Hazaras blocked traffic in a sit-in protest for a third day in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday after a suicide bomb killed 19 people in an outdoor market, many of them ethnic Hazaras.

Pakistani Shi'ite supporters of Imamia Students Organization (ISO) hold a sign to condemn the Friday's blast at vegetable market in Quetta, during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Dozens were wounded in the blast on Friday on the outskirts of Quetta, capital of resource-rich Baluchistan province, officials said. Islamic State claimed responsibility.... Continue Reading.... 

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