Daesh claims responsibility for bomb at Pakistan Sufi shrine that kills 50, injures 100

Sputnik Breaking News:

 At least 50 were killed and 100 injured in an explosion in southern Pakistan, Express Tribune reported.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier media reports said that some 30 were killed.

A suspected female suicide bomber blew herself up near a shrine in the town of Sehwan in southern Pakistan.

The television channel reported that a bomb had gone off during a religious ritual involving a large number of participants. The shrine is built around the tomb of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a Sufi poet and philosopher.

Daesh claimed responsibility for the explosion.

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