At least 41 people have been killed and dozens injured in a gun attack on a bus carrying Ismaili Shia Muslims in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police say.
Officers said at least six gunmen on motorcycles stopped the bus and fired at passengers indiscriminately.
“There are 41 deaths, men and women included,” police spokesman Atiq Shaikh told Reuters.
Pakistan’s Shia minority are the target of frequent sectarian attacks from Sunni militant groups.
Television channels carried pictures of a pink bus covered in bullet holes.
No group has yet said it carried out the attack
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