At least 73 people were reported killed and up to several hundred injured Thursday when a suicide bomber struck inside a famous Sufi shrine in southeastern Pakistan while devotees were performing a weekly ritual dance, police and medical officials said. A militant group affiliated with the Islamic State asserted responsibility for the blast in Sindh province, one of the country’s deadliest attacks in a decade of terrorism. It came after several successive days of violence in all four provinces of Pakistan and two tribal areas.
   
 
World News Alert Thu., Feb. 16, 2017 12:42 p.m.
  
 
ISIS affiliate claims responsibility for Pakistan shrine blast, one of the deadliest attacks in a decade
At least 73 people were reported killed and up to several hundred injured Thursday when a suicide bomber struck inside a famous Sufi shrine in southeastern Pakistan while devotees were performing a weekly ritual dance, police and medical officials said. A militant group affiliated with the Islamic State asserted responsibility for the blast in Sindh province, one of the country’s deadliest attacks in a decade of terrorism. It came after several successive days of violence in all four provinces of Pakistan and two tribal areas.
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