QUETTA, Pakistan/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers stormed a packed Christian church in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding up to 56, officials said, in the latest attack claimed by Islamic State in the country. Islamic State claimed the attack, the group's Amaq news agency said in an online statement, without providing any evidence for its claim. A suicide bomber killed 52 people and wounded over 100 at a Baluchistan Sufi shrine in November last year, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. In February, Islamic State attacked a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, killing 83 people. "Quetta church attack targeting our brotherly Christian Pakistanis is an attempt to cloud Christmas celebrations," he said.

Source: The Star December 17, 2017 08:44 UTC