The Islamic State yesterday claimed responsibility for an attack by gunmen on a bus that killed at least 43 Shiites in Pakistan’s Karachi, AFP reported.
Reuters reported that gunmen on motorcycles boarded a bus and opened fire on commuters in Pakistan’s volatile southern city of Karachi.
“As the gunmen climbed on to the bus, one of them shouted, ‘Kill them all!’ Then they started indiscriminately firing at everyone they saw,” a wounded woman told a television channel by phone.
Police Superintendent Najib Khan told Reuters there were six gunmen and that all the passengers were Ismailis, a minority Shi’ite Muslim sect. Pakistan is mostly Sunni.
