Quetta: Pakistani Shia community ends blockades, hundreds attend burial of slain miners
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Updated: Jan 09, 2021 18:05 IST
Quetta (Balochistan) [Pakistan], January 9 (ANI): Ending a week of protests, hundreds of Shia Pakistanis gathered on Saturday here to bury 11 coal miners from the Hazara community, who were killed in the Islamic State attack.
The rites of the dead miners were carried out amid tight security six days after their deaths, Al Jazeera reported.
On Sunday, unidentified gunmen stormed into a coal mine in Mach town near Quetta, pulling out ethnic Hazaras, members of Pakistan's Shia minority community, from their homes and open firing on them.