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| Location | Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan |
| Date | 2 March 2004 |
Attack type | Hand grenades, Shooting and Rockets |
| Deaths | 49 |
| Injured | at least 100 |
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The 2004 Quetta Ashura massacre was a terrorist attack on 2 March 2004 during an Ashura procession in the southwestern city of Quetta, Pakistan. At least 42 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.
People going for wudu to recite prayers heard gunshots and the noha khwuan in the truck shouted that the people who were going for wudu should run for their lives.
In those days Ashura had no security.[1] The attack took place in Liaqat Bazaar. Almost all of the victims were Hazara. The incident occurred just after the Karbala Ashura bombings in Iraq.
- ^ "South Asia | Carnage in Pakistan Shia attack". BBC News. 2 March 2004. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2012.