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Relatives look for missing pilgrims after Shah Noorani shrine bombing

People were looking for their loved ones in the hospitals and morgues after the deadly Shah Noorani Shrine suicide attack on Saturday in Balochistan till last night. The blast left thousands of survivors aggrieved and several of the pilgrims are still missing since Saturday night

Civil Hospital is again a site of the scenes that have become a regular feature for helpless Pakistanis. The relatives of the missing pilgrims could be seen looking for their relatives and friends. With hopes in their eyes and prayers on their mouths, they kept searching for their loved ones among the injured.
Some came from Mehmoodabad, some from Malir to look for the missing. Some have lost their entire families while the children of others are missing. One mother repeatedly visited the hospitals but after failing to find her son there, tried to look for him at Edhi morgue, but failed to find her even there.
With their dying hopes after several hours of the blast, the survivors are still looking for their loved ones in the morgues and hospitals of Karachi.
The death toll from suicide blast at Shah Noorani shrine on Saturday rose to 52, with 110 injured.
The blast targeted devotees who played Dhamal, a kind of mystic dance, at Shah Noorani Shrine located at a hilltop whose road is linked with Hub town of the Balochistan’s Kalat region.
Initial probe reveals that the attack was carried out by a burqa-clad suicide bomber who blew himself up at the place where the devotees were dancing. There were over 500 people, coming from different parts of the country, inside the shrine when the blast happened.
Authorities said they had dispatched ambulances and medical workers from Karachi, a three-hour drive from the shrine — which is located in a remote, mountainous region with limited emergency facilities.

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