Sehwan blast: More than 72 martyred, over 200 people injured
Taluka Hospital Medical Superintendent Moinuddin Siddiqui reliable that during slightest 47 bodies have been brought to a sanatorium while some-more than 200 harmed were shifted to a hospital.
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The blast took place during a mark where a dhamaal (Sufi ritual) was being performed, within a premises of a shrine.
SSP Jamshoro Tariq Wilayat told media that initial news suggests that it was a self-murder bombing on apportionment indifferent for women in a shrine.
“It seems to be a self-murder bombing according to initial information supposing by Sehwan military to me and we am on approach to Shewan”, SSP said.
Sources on a belligerent have reported that thousands of people had collected during a tabernacle today.
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This is a seventh apprehension conflict in 5 days in opposite cities of Pakistan including capitals of Punjab and Balochistan. On Monday, a self-murder assailant claimed 14 lives outward Punjab Assembly on Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam. The martyred enclosed Chief Traffic Office, Syed Mobin Ahmad and Deputy Inspector General of Police.
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Last year in November, a identical kind of explosve blast was reported during Shah Noorani tabernacle in Hub area of Balochistan that left over 52 killed and dozens of others wounded.
An puncture has been announced in a hospitals of a area, with a harmed being shifted to Liaquat Medical Complex Jamshoro and a sub-district hospital.
#Sehwan. PAF C 130 will lift harmed from Nawab Shah airport. Navy heli will lift harmed from Sehwan and surroundings.
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) February 16, 2017
Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa destined immediated assistance to be supposing to polite authorities. Army contingents have been dispatched along with medical personnel. Combined Military Hospital Hyderabad has been alerted to accept casualties.
#COAS destined imed assistance to Sehwan blast victims. Army /Rangers changed incl medical support. Hyderabad CMH prepared to accept casualties.
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) February 16, 2017
The tabernacle is situated somewhat off a Indus Highway in Jamshoro district.
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah phoned a comparison polite and military officials of a district and educated them to strech a shrine.
Sehwan in Jamshoro district is a subdivision of Sindh’s arch minister.
“Recent militant acts are being executed on a directions from antagonistic powers and from sanctuaries in Afghanistan. We shall urge and respond,” DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor pronounced in a statement.
Recent Ts acts are being exec on directions from antagonistic powers and from sanctuaries in Afghanistan. We shall urge and respond.
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) February 16, 2017
Political leaders including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in a statement, cursed a lethal attack:
The conflict on a shrines of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar represents an conflict on a progressive, thorough destiny of Pakistan: PM Nawaz Sharif
— PML(N) (@pmln_org) February 16, 2017
We contingency mount joined in this onslaught for a Paki identity, and concept humanity.We have faced worse circumstances,nd still persevered.
— PML(N) (@pmln_org) February 16, 2017
Strongly reject a blast during Sehwan. My intense thoughts and prayers for a families of a victims. Praying for a liberation of injured
— Sardar Ayaz Sadiq (@AyazSadiq122) February 16, 2017
Shocked saddened by condemnable militant conflict inside Sufi tabernacle of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar targeting trusting ppl incl women children.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) February 16, 2017
I strongly reject terrorists conflict during Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine. #Sehwan
— Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri (@TahirulQadri) February 16, 2017
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