by Jamil Bhatti, Liu Tian
ISLAMABAD, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- At least 101 people were killed and over 300 others injured in seven bomb blasts during last four days across Pakistan as the country witnessed a sudden surge in terror attacks after a visible tendency of drop in such attacks since the launch of military operation in 2014.
Thursday evening's suicide bombing was the latest of this wave. A bomber hit a gathering of hundreds of people at a Sufi shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan town of Jamshoro district in Pakistan's southern Sindh Province, killing 72 people and leaving over 200 others injured, police said.
Inspector General of Sindh police, A.D. Khwaja said that the worst incident of the year 2017 took place when a young suicide bomber exploded his explosive laden jacket amid the people performing Dhamal (mystic dance) inside the main compound of the shrine.
Faisal Edhi, head of rescue team, said that the killed included 43 men, 20 children and nine women, fearing that the death toll might further rise because several of injured were in critical condition.
Emergency were declared in all hospitals in Sehwan and in neighboring cities of Hyderabad and NawabShah, while critical injured were being airlifted by the Pakistan Air Force to hospitals in the southern port city of Karachi.
Militants group of Islamic State, through a website of its news agency AMAQ, has claimed the attack.
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