publish time

15/09/2016

author name Arab Times

publish time

15/09/2016

author name Arab Times
Injured Pakistani policemen arrive at a hospital following a bomb explosion in Quetta on Sept 13. Two policemen died and four were injured when their van was hit by a blast in Quetta city in the southwestern province of Baluchistan. (AFP) Injured Pakistani policemen arrive at a hospital following a bomb explosion in Quetta on Sept 13. Two policemen died and four were injured when their van was hit by a blast in Quetta city in the southwestern province of Baluchistan. (AFP)

KARACHI, Sept 14, (AFP): A suicide bomber injured four policemen, one critically, outside a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan as the country marked the beginning of the religious festival Eid al-Adha on Tuesday.

The attack took place in Shikarpur in Sindh province, around 470 kms (300 miles) north of Karachi and the same district where at least 61 were killed in a suicide attack on another Shiite mosque in 2015.

Officials said two suicide bombers tried to enter the Khanpur Imambargah but were intercepted by police. “Four of our men are injured of whom one is critical” Umar Tufail, a senior local police officer told AFP