MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier media reports said that some 30 were killed.
A suspected female suicide bomber blew herself up near a shrine in the town of Sehwan in southern Pakistan.
The television channel reported that a bomb had gone off during a religious ritual involving a large number of participants. The shrine is built around a tomb of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a Sufi poet and philosopher.
Daesh claimed responsbility for the explosion.
Blast Footage of Lal Shahbaz Qalander Shrine at Sehven pic.twitter.com/Yzs8uIeGVX
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"The blast occurred within the premises of the shrine, we have declared emergency in hospitals and are shifting the injured to nearby hospitals," Deputy Commissioner Munawar Mahesar told the ARY News.
