Motorcycle gunmen kill at least 43 in bus attack in Pakistan's Karachi

Posted by Anup Baral May 13, 2015 :

News: Motorcycle gunmen kill 43 in bus attack in Pakistan's Karachi (RAW) 50 killed in Karachi bus attack. Gunmen on motorcycles killed 41 people in an attack on a bus in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, police said, in what appeared to be the latest violence directed against religious minorities this year.A similar attack against the Shiites took place on 30 January when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in the southern Shikarpur district, killing 61. Around 1,000 Shiites have been killed in the past two years in Pakistan, with many of the attacks claimed by the hardline Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) who view the Shiites as heretics.Television channels carried pictures of a pink bus covered in bullet holes and lines of waiting ambulances.