Mastung blast: Candlelight vigil held to express solidarity with victims
The trader community carried out shutter down strike across the province.
HYDERABAD (Dunya News) – A candlelight vigil was held in Quetta and Hyderabad to pay tribute to the victims of Mastung blast that took lives of more than 100 people.
According to details, the trader community carried out shutter-down strike across the province as the sad mishap marked one week.
They also prayed for the recovery of the injured and demanded the district government to ensure security arrangements.
Earlier, a suicide blast ripped through a crowd at a political rally in Mastung on Friday, killing 149 including younger brother of former Balochistan chief minister Aslam Raisani and Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate, Nawabzada Siraj Raisani.
The blast is the latest in a string of attacks that have spurred fears of violence ahead of nationwide polls on July 25.
Authorities said the suicide bomber detonated in the middle of a compound where the political meeting was taking place.
The attack was the most lethal since Taliban militants assaulted a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar in 2014, killing over 150 people, mostly children, and one of the deadliest in Pakistan’s long struggle with militancy.
It came hours after four people were killed and 39 injured when a bomb hidden inside a motorcycle detonated close to another politician’s convoy in Bannu on Friday, near the border with Afghanistan.
