25/10/2010 13:20
Bomb blast at Pakistan shrine kills four
A bomb blast outside a Sufi shrine in Pakistan killed four people, including women, on Monday in the latest militant attack in a country at the forefront of the US-led war on Al-Qaeda, France Presse said quoting local police.
Two men riding a motorbike left a milk container near the gate of the shrine in Pakpattan, 190 kilometres (120 miles) from the eastern Punjab provincial capital Lahore, which then exploded in a huge fireball, a witness said.
“We have four killed and about 12 wounded,” regional police chief Mohammad Kashif told reporters. “The rescue work is over. We’re now investigating.”
Sufi worshippers, who follow a mystical strain of Islam, have increasingly been the target of bloody attacks by Islamist militants in Pakistan.