At least two people have been killed and several others hurt in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi after gunmen opened fire on mourners attending a funeral held for the victims of a recent attack on Shia Muslims.
Officials said armed assailants shot and killed two participants of the Shia funeral procession near Al-Asif square in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth area on Monday.
The violent incident took place as mourners were returning from the funeral ceremony.
On Sunday evening, a car bomb attack killed at least 48 people and wounded 150 others in a Shia neighborhood in Karachi. Men, women and children were among those killed and injured.
On February 16, a bomb attack targeting Shia Muslims in the main bazaar of the southwestern city of Quetta killed at least 90 people, including women and children, and injured more than 200 others.
Also on January 10, a twin bomb attack at a crowded billiard hall in Quetta, which is the capital of Balochistan Province, killed more than 90 people, mostly Shia Muslims.