QUETTA – The militant Islamic State group claimed responsibility for theattack in Quetta that killed 21 people and left 48 more injured, thegroup’s Amaq news agency stated on Saturday.
The group, also referred to as Daesh, also released a photograph of thebomber along with his name and said the attack targeted a specificcommunity.
The claims dispute the ones made by a faction of the Taliban in which thegroup said it was behind the attack in collaboration with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi(LeJ).
Hazara community stages sit-in
People from the Hazara community continued their sit-in for the secondconsecutive day on Saturday against the horrific explosion at a busyvegetable market in the southwestern Balochistan province.
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The participants of the agitation who were gathered at Western bypass ofthe provincial capital were chanting slogans against the government as theywere of the view that no effective and sufficient security measures weretaken for the protection of the Hazara community.
They termed that the bomb blast was a planned targeting of the community.
