[ April 22, 2024 ]
Four members of a Christian family were shot and killed on Easter Monday in southwestern Pakistan.
And now ISIS has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the deaths.
The family members had been traveling by rickshaw when they were confronted by armed men riding a motorcycle.
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The men opened fire, killing four.
EuroNews has more:
The militant group Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for killing four members of a Christian family in southwestern Pakistan.
A statement issued by the group claimed that militants belonging to ISIS fired on the group of Christians as they were travelling in the city of Quetta, killing four on Monday.
Islamic State has affiliates in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, many drawn from existing Islamist militant groups, who support their vehement sectarian views against Shi’ite Muslims and non-Muslims.
The family was travelling in a rickshaw when armed men on a motorcycle intercepted them and opened fire in Quetta city, the capital of Baluchistan province.
The family had come to visit relatives in Quetta’s Shahzaman road area, where a large number of the city’s Christian community lives.
“It appears to have been a targeted attack,” provincial police official Moazzam Jah Ansari told Reuters. “It was an act of terrorism.”
The attack came a day after Pakistan’s Christian community celebrated Easter on Sunday. Around 2 percent of Pakistan’s population of 208 million are Christians.
Minority religious festivals are a security concern in the majority Sunni Muslim country where there have been a number of high casualty attacks on Christians and Shi’ite Muslims.
Baluchistan, a region bordering Iran as well as Afghanistan, is plagued by violence by Sunni Islamist groups linked to the Taliban, al Qaeda and Islamic State.
It also has an indigenous ethnic Baloch insurgency fighting against central government.
In December, a week before Christmas, two suicide bombers stormed a packed Christian church in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 10 people and wounding up to 56, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
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8 Comments
6 years ago
pakistan is beyond any hope to ever become human. Isolate it, let the Chinese take it over, they know how to deal with muslims, they are not afraid to do so.
6 years ago
The past two months of violence and bloodshed in the UK capital under Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan have seen the Diversity capital overtake New York City’s murder rate.
Reported rapes are running three times higher in London than in NYC. Plus the not reported rapes.
Another night of bloodshed in Sadiq Khan’s London. Just part and parcel of living in a multicultural city.
6 years ago
An “act of terrorism”??? This is MURDER!!
6 years ago
No morning by the pope for these Christians for this fake pope does not even acknowledge Jesus.
