SEHWAN, PAKISTAN — The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed more than 70 people and wounded 250 more at a Sufi shrine in Pakistan on Thursday evening.
The bombing targeted the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in the town of Sehwan, in Pakistan’s southern Singh province. Lal Shahbaz Qalandar was a Sufi philosopher and poet. Sufism is popular in Pakistan and regarded as a relatively tolerant form of Islam.
The shrine was crowded with people performing a spiritual dance when a suicide bomber blew himself up among the crowd.
The Islamic State attacked another Sufi shrine in southwestern Pakistan in November.
