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ISIS Claims Quetta Church Explosion; 9 Die In Suicide Attack

December 18 2017

Pakistan

A suicide bomb and gun attack on a church in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta has killed at least nine people and injured 30 more, reports Dawn (Pakistan), citing Baluchistan's provincial officials.

Two men approached the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon, said officials.

Guards stopped the attackers at the entrance, said witnesses.

Provincial officials told AFP that police shot one attacker outside the church. The other reportedly blew himself...

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