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Muslim pilgrims target of bombings in Pakistan

Thirteen people have reportedly been killed in a bomb attack on a Pakistan-based hospital which was receiving the Muslim casualties from an earlier explosion.

The bomb ripped through the Jinnah hospital in the Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi on Friday. “20 were injured in the second bomb blast. This happened in front of the emergency ward of Jinnah hospital,” Spokesman for the Provincial Government Jameel Soomro was quoted by the AFP as saying.

The blast occurred as the hospital was receiving the dead and wounded from an earlier attack in which a bomber had targeted a bus packed with Muslim mourners, Reuters reported.

Twelve people who were among a group of pilgrims marking the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (PBUH) were killed in that attack.

In December 2009, a deadly attack on an Ashura procession claimed the lives of nearly 50 people.

Over the past two years, some 3,000 people have died in bomb attacks and other militant operations throughout Pakistan.

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