A suicide bomber injured four policemen, one critically, outside an Imambargah in Shikarpur in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban as the country marked the beginning of Eidul-Azha on Tuesday. The incident occurred in Shikarpur, around 470 kilometres (300 miles) north of Karachi and the same district where at least 61 were killed in a suicide attack on another Shia mosque in 2015.
Officials said two suicide bombers tried to enter the Khanpur Imambargah but were intercepted by police. "Four of our men are injured of whom one is critical," Umar Tufail, a senior local police officer told AFP. Tufail added doctors were also trying to save the life of the other suspected bomber, who was injured when the first one blew himself up but failed to detonate himself.
"The attackers came as the worshippers were gathering to offer Eid prayers. Police were able to stop him at the gate outside the mosque," A.D. Khawaja, chief of police for Sindh province said. Worshippers overpowered the second would-be suicide bomber as the police were reeling from their injuries, he added. A faction of the Pakistani Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement sent to media. Spokesman for the group Ehsan Ullah Ehsan said it was a part of an operation which would be spread to every area of the country.
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