Pakistani Shiite youth from Hazara community burn tires to block a main road during a protest to condemn Friday’s suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, on April 13, 2019. (AP)

ISIS says it was behind Pakistan market suicide bombing

Reuters, Cairo

Published: 13 April ,2019: 12:00 AM GST Updated: 20 May ,2020: 10:59 AM GST

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ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 18 people in a Pakistan market, the group’s Amaq news agency said on Saturday.

The attack ripped through an outdoor Pakistani market on Friday, killing at least 18 people, half of them ethnic Hazaras, officials said, in an attack apparently aimed at minority Shi’ite Muslims.

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