Islamic State-claimed bomb kills 70 at Pakistani shrine

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Islamic State-claimed bomb kills 70 at Pakistani shrine
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By AFP     4 hours ago in World

At least 70 people were killed and hundreds wounded Thursday when a bomb ripped through a Sufi shrine in Pakistan, officials said, after a series of extremist assaults shook the country's growing sense of security.

The Islamic State group (IS) claimed the attack, the deadliest to hit Pakistan so far in 2017, in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northeast of the provincial capital Karachi.

A police source said a suicide bomber entered the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a 13th century Muslim saint, and blew himself up among hundreds of devotees.

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[TomSea]

They bombed Sufis; so a different sect of Muslims. I don't know the faith well; but I think they are a sort of spiritual sect of Muslims.  The Salafis, Wahhabists, seem to be the dangerous ones but I'm no expert.

Sufism
Sufism or Tasawwuf, is defined as the inner mystical dimension of Islam. Practitioners of Sufism (Tasawwuf), referred to as Sufis, often belong to different ṭuruq or "orders"—congregations formed around a grand master referred to as a Mawla who maintains a direct chain of teachers back to the Prophet Muhammad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism