raheel-143 people were killed while 13 others wounded on Wednesday morning. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has arrived in Karachi after the terrorist attack on an Ismaili community bus claimed the lives of 45 people. According to the ISPR, the Army chief arrived in the city to evaluate the situation following the attack.
Armed men opened fire inside a bus carrying members of the Ismaili community near Safoora Chowk in Karachi. All victims were shot from a close-range. 25 men and 16 women have so far been confirmed by Hospital sources, while police officials say that there were no children among the casualties.

A member of the Ismaili community said the bus would pick and drop people from work on a daily basis. So the attack was well plalned and well coordinated in an utmost timely manner. Gunmen on motorcycles stopped the bus shortly after its departure in the Safoora Chowrangi area of the city. The gunmen boarded the bus and opened fire killing 45 people. The attackers are said to have entered the bus from the rear portion a few minutes after its departure. The occupants of the bus taking the gunmen to be robbers, quickly embarked on the vehicle.

“The assailants subdued the driver and separated (two) children from the others and told the passengers to keep their head low. One of the attackers situated in the rear side of the bus then ordered his associates to ‘shoot every one’ after which they indiscriminately targeted all passengers of the bus. All attackers were speaking fluent Urdu according to the survivor” – says a Survior

IS-890x395Dawn reports that Jundullah has claimmed the attack. Ahmed Marwat, a spokesman for Jundullah which is a splinter group of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), talking to Reuters claimed responsibility for the attack. The Al Qaeda affiliated group that started off from South Waziristan has targetted Shia minorities and foreign tourists in the past as well. In November last year, the group had pledged support to Islamic State (IS). In the past, the proscribed group has claimed several attacks including a blast near the Wagah border in November 2014 and the July 2013 attack on the compound of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in Sukkur. It has also claimed the several attacks on polio workers across the country.

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