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| Location | Mastung near Quetta, Pakistan |
| Date | 20 September 2011 |
| Target | Hazara Shia minority |
Attack type | Shooting |
| Deaths | 26[1][2] |
| Injured | 6[1][2] |
| Perpetrators | Lashkar e Jhangvi[2] |
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The 2011 Mastung bus shooting was an armed attack on 20 September 2011 on a bus traveling in Mastung District near the city of Quetta in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. The attack left at least 26 people dead. The victims were Shi'a Muslim pilgrims of the Hazara community, suggesting the attack to have been a targeted killing of sectarian nature. The attack occurred in Luck Pass area near Mastung. The bus was leaving Quetta for Taftan, Balochistan.[1] In addition, 2 others were killed in a follow-up attack on a car on its way to rescue the survivors of the bus attack, which raised the death toll to 28 on that day.[1]
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni extremist Pakistani militant group designated as a terrorist organization by Pakistan and the United States claimed responsibility for the attack.[2]
- ^ a b c d At least 26 pilgrims die in Quetta bus attack, Samaa New Television, 20 September 2011, archived from the original on 15 December 2011
- ^ a b c d Quetta: 26 Shia pilgrims killed by gun men in Mastung, Pak Tribune, 21 September 2011