29 victims of Mastung bomb attack were buried on Friday in Quetta’s Hazara Town graveyard, private news channels reported.
The burials followed a late-night agreement of the Shia Hazara community to end its sit-ins after Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s assurance that the elements behind the attack will be dealt with strictly.
The incident on Tuesday left at least 25 Shia pilgrims dead in an attack on the pilgrims’ bus en-route to Quetta near Mastung. The attack was claimed by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi which also warned of more such attacks.
Hundreds of Hazara community members, women and children included staged a 48-hour long sit-in at Quetta’s Shuhda chowk in extreme chilly temperature.
In Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Hyderabad, Gilgit and various other parts of the country, sit-ins and protests were held in solidarity with the Hazara victims.
