72 passed as self-murder bomber strikes inside Lal Shahbaz Qalandar tabernacle in Sehwan
Inside perspective of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar’s tabernacle in Sehwan, Sindh where a self-murder bomber blew himself adult on Thursday, Feb 16, 2017. PHOTO: ONLINE
HYDERABAD: At slightest 72 people have been killed and 250 others harmed in a self-murder bombing during a tabernacle of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sindh’s Sehwan city on Thursday, officials confirmed.
Police reliable it was a self-murder attack. IG AD Khawaja revised an progressing genocide toll, observant that during slightest 72 people have been killed and many some-more injured.
The bomber struck inside a compound, where a vast array of devotees were behaving dhamal, religious dance, sources said.
According to a military source, a bomber entered a tabernacle and blew himself adult amid a vast public of devotees, many of whom were there since Thursday is deliberate a dedicated day to urge during a shrine.
PHOTO: PPI
Sehwan is 132 kilometres from Jamshoro and around 140 kilometers from Hyderabad.
“The occurrence took place outward a mazar (shrine) where Golden Gate is located,” Hyderabad Commissioner Kazi Shahid Parvez told The Express Tribune.
The bombing is suggestive of a near-identical conflict during Dargah Shah Noorani, in Khuzdar district of Balochistan, late final year. At slightest 52 people, including women and children, were killed in that attack.
IS-claimed bombing kills during slightest 52 during Khuzdar shrine
An puncture has been announced in hospitals opposite Dadu, Sehwan and Hyderabad.
“Ambulances from Hyderabad and Jamshoro have been sent to Sehwan. The city has a taluka sanatorium though it is not versed with a mishap centre to understanding with puncture cases,” in-charge Edhi Foundation Mairaj Ahmed told The Express Tribune.
Navy helicopters, PAF aircraft are also being dispatched for rescue operations, according to a ISPR.
#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
Eyewitnesses described bloody scenes in a shrine’s devalue where tellurian physique tools were seen scattered. Some bodies were also seen fibbing on a floor.
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#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
#Sehwan. CNS placed all Naval Hospitals during Karachi on high alert. Ready to accept harmed by night able heli.
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) February 16, 2017
CM Sindh orders rescue, service operation
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah called IG Police AD Khawaja and Hyderabad commissioner, and systematic rescue and service operation in arise of a blast.
‘Terrorist acts being executed from Afghanistan’
Meanwhile, a ISPR pronounced a militant acts were being executed from sanctuaries formed in Afghanistan.
“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
#COAS, “Each dump of nation’s blood shall be revenged, and revenged immediately. No some-more patience for anyone.”
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) February 16, 2017
Blood donation
Local authorities have appealed a people for blood donation. Many of a harmed were shifted to a sanatorium in rickshaws, on feet and on carts before a ambulances arrived.
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IS claims responsibility
Global apprehension organisation Islamic State claimed shortcoming of a attack, a group’s dependent news group AMAQ reported.
Zardari to revisit Sehwan
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has left for Karachi from Dubai, sources told The Express Tribune. The former boss will also compensate a revisit to a shrine.
The nation has seen an torrent in militant assault over a past few days, with bombers distinguished in Lahore, Peshawar, Mohmand Agency, and now in Sindh. Seven people were killed in dual self-murder attacks in Mohmand, while a bomber targeted a outpost carrying reduce justice judges in Peshawar.
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Condemnations
Political leaders including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan 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
Strongly reject during explosve blast occurrence in #SehwanSharif and prayed for martyrs and harmed people. May Allah strengthen Pakistan
— Abdul Aleem Khan (@aleemkhan_pti) February 16, 2017
Deeply unhappy during a conflict on Shrine of Saint Lal Shehbaz Qalandar.The heartless array of attacks by the enemies targeting innocents is barbaric
— Naz Baloch (@NazBalochPTI) February 16, 2017
Innocent adults the soldiers continue to tumble chase to ashamed acts of terrorism – devotees during Lal Shahbaz Qalandar’s tabernacle latest vics
— Shireen Mazari (@ShireenMazari1) 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
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1329152/several-injured-sehwan-blast/