ISIS Kills 52 People in a Blast Near Shah Noorani Shrine in Pak
An eyewitness told Pakistan TV Channel, SAMAA, that at least 100 people were present inside the shrine.
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At least 52 people, including women and children, were killed and more than 100 others injured on Saturday evening in a suicide attack carried out by a 14-year-old boy at a popular sufi shrine in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province.
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack on the shrine.
The blast occurred in the remote Hub region in Lasbela district where devotees were attending a Sufi dance called "dhamaal" at Dargah Shah Noorani shrine.
Balochistan Interior Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti confirmed the blast in which "several" people were killed.
However, an official of the Edhi Trust Foundation told local media that nearly 30 people, including women and children, were dead and around 100 injured were.
Bugti said it was a remote area and it would be quite a task to retrieve the dead and injured when darkness had already engulfed the region.