Police arrests 16 over Shiite mosque blast in D.G. Khan
Police said Friday they had arrested 16 suspects over a suspected suicide bombing near a Shiite Muslim mosque in Dera Ghazi Khan. A suspected suicide bomber ripped through a crowd of worshippers gathering for a religious event outside the mosque late Thursday, leaving 33 people dead and 52 wounded, according to police. “We have arrested 16 suspects for questioning in connection with the blast,” Shaukat Javed, the police chief of Punjab province, told a foreign news agency by telephone.
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