DHAKA: At least 43 people were killed and 13 others wounded on Wednesday when armed men opened fire inside a bus carrying members of the Ismaili community near Safoora Chowk in Karachi.
Sindh Police Inspector General Ghulam Haider Jamali said that 60 people were on board the bus when six gunmen entered and executed 43 passengers.
He added that the armed men used 9mm pistols in the massacre. The attackers managed to flee after the attack, reports dawn.com.
Hospital sources have so far confirmed that the dead include 25 men and 16 women. Police officials said that there were no children among the casualties.
Rana M Razzaq, a security coordinator at the Memon Medical Center, told the media, ‘One young girl hid and survived. Three or four others who were brought to the hospital have survived... the rest are all dead’.
However, Ahmed Marwat, a spokesman for Jundullah which is a splinter group of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), talking to the media claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Al-Qaeda affiliated group that started off from South Waziristan has targeted Shia minorities and foreign tourists in the past as well.
In November last year, the group had pledged support to Islamic State (IS).
** Gunmen kill 40 in Karachi attack
BDST: 1535 HRS, MAY 13, 2015
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