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Is this racist or sectarian mass murder? Feb 17th 2013, 08:46 More horrors from Pakistan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21489756 Quote: Senior police official Wazir Khan Nasir said that 81 people were now confirmed dead after Saturday's attack, with 178 people wounded. Twenty people are still critically wounded and the death toll could rise. The blast ripped through a crowded market place in a Hazara area at around 18:00 (13:00) on Saturday. The bomb went off in an area housing grocery stores, vegetable shops, language schools and a computer centre. It happened as people, mainly women, were shopping for groceries and children were coming out of their classes. The banned Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi said it carried out the attack, as well as the one in January. Quetta is the capital of Balochistan province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, and has been plagued by a separatist rebellion as well as sectarian violence. Hundreds of Shia Hazaras in Quetta have been killed in attacks over the past few years.

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