Muslim holy day bloodied by bombings in Pakistan, Afghanistan

Attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan targeted mourners, killing at least 44, many of them women and children.



The living were honoring the dead on both sides of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan on Thursday when militant bombers struck, killing at least 44 people in two attacks that coincided with one of the holiest days on the Muslim calendar.

The heaviest toll was inflicted in the Pakistani city of Quetta, in western Baluchistan province, where nearly half the top police commanders in the province died when insurgents shot and killed a police inspector, then bombed his funeral hours later, where most of the province’s police commanders had gathered. At least 30 people were reported dead and 40 wounded.

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