Another horrific postcard from the religion of peace, this time targeting Christians in Pakistan.
Watch below:
Two suicide bombers struck a church in Pakistan on Sunday, killing nine people and wounding more than 50 others, authorities said, in the first attack on a church claimed by the country’s Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affiliate.
Hundreds of worshippers were attending services ahead of Christmas when the bombers appeared in the city of Quetta and clashed with security forces. One assailant was killed at the church entrance. The other made it inside, said Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister for the southwestern Baluchistan province.
Baluchistan Police Chief Moazzam Ansari praised the response of security forces guarding the church, saying the attacker who made it inside was wounded and unable to reach the main building.
“Otherwise the loss of lives could have been much higher,” he told reporters. Quetta Police Chief Abdur Razzaq Cheema said a search was underway for two suspected accomplices who escaped.
Local television showed ambulances and security patrols racing to the scene as women and children were being led out of the church’s main gate.
Fox News later reported that ISIS claimed credit:
Just horrific. And we’re going to see more of these attacks since they’ve lost so much ground in Iraq.