The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for Saturday evening’s bomb attack on a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province that killed at least 52 people and wounded around 100 others.Witnesses and doctors feared the death toll was expected to rise.
The victims included women and children. A local official at the Shah Noorani Shrine said many of the wounded were in critical condition.
Witnesses said some of the wounded succumbed to their injuries because of the absence of a local hospital or medical facility in the remote area.
It took rescue teams hours to reach the scene. Some shrine visitors relied on their personal vehicles to transport the wounded and dead.