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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Saadullah Akhtar

‘Mourning in every street’: A Pakistani city, crushed by a suicide bomb

Relatives visiting family members injured in the suicide bombing in Mastung, Balochistan, at the Quetta hospital where they are receiving treatment on Monday, October 1, 2023 [Saadullah Akhter/Al Jazeera]

Quetta, Pakistan — Munir Ahmed Baloch greeted a stream of visitors coming to his residence in Mastung, some 50km (31 miles) from the southwest Pakistan city of Quetta, arriving to condole the death of his younger brother Sarfaraz.

On Friday, the brothers were gathered with hundreds of other worshippers outside a local mosque when a suicide bomber blew himself up. The congregation had collected to mark the birthday of Prophet Muhammad.

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