Bomb kills 19 Pakistan pilgrims, 21 troops shot dead
- Published: 30 Dec 2012 at 13.46
- Online news: Asia
A car bomb killed at least 19 Shiite Muslim pilgrims in southwest Pakistan on Sunday as security forces searched for the killers of 21 kidnapped troops in the troubled northwest, officials said.
Volunteers search for victims in a destroyed bus at the site of a car bomb attack in Mastung, some 30 kilometres south of Quetta in southwest Pakistan, on December 30, 2012. The car bomb killed at least 19 Shiite Muslim pilgrims on Sunday as security forces searched for the killers of 21 kidnapped troops in the troubled northwest, officials said.
The remotely-triggered bomb hit a convoy of three buses carrying about 180 pilgrims to Iran and set one of the buses ablaze in Mastung district, they said.
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