No fewer than 41 people have
been killed and 20 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.
Provincial police chief Ghulam
Haider Jamali said the bus was on its way to an Ismaili Shia Muslim place of
worship when gunmen boarded it in the Safoora Goth area of Karachi and fired at
passengers.
The Taliban and other Sunni
Muslim extremist groups have targeted Shia Muslims in Pakistan in the past.
In the last few months, several
mosques belonging to religious minorities have been bombed
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