Quetta bombings of 2013
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Two bombings in Quetta, Pakistan, in January and February 2013 killed at least 180 Hazaras, among the deadliest sectarian attacks in Pakistan's history.
On 10 January 2013, a suicide bomber attacked a snooker club on Alamdar Road in Quetta. About ten minutes later a car bomb exploded as people came to help the wounded. Human Rights Watch reports that 96 Hazaras were killed and at least 150 wounded.1
On 17 February 2013, a water tanker packed with explosives was detonated at a vegetable market in Hazara Town, killing at least 84 Hazaras and injuring more than 160.1 Some reports date this attack to 16 February.2
The militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for both.1 Human Rights Watch calls them the deadliest sectarian attacks in Pakistan since independence in 1947.1 Death tolls differ between sources, and rose in the days after each attack.
More than 500 Hazaras had been killed in Balochistan since 2008, according to the same report.1 See Hazaras in Pakistan.
Footnotes
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Human Rights Watch, We are the Walking Dead: Killings of Shia Hazara in Balochistan, Pakistan, June 2014. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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Wikipedia, February 2013 Quetta bombing. ↩