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QUETTA: The victims of the Mastung suicide attack were laid to rest in two graveyards of the city on Friday.
22 victims belonging to the Hazara Shia community were laid to rest at the Bahisht-e-Zainab graveyard while four were buried at the Hazara Town graveyard.
Grief-stricken mourners of the Hazara community had refused to bury their dead after a roadside blast on Tuesday hit a bus around 60 kilometres (40 miles) west of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province. Over a two-day protest, up to 2,000 people, most of them Hazara’s, demonstrated in freezing temperatures on Quetta´s busy Alamdar Road with the bodies of the bombing victims, refusing to bury them until action was taken against militants.
There were also demonstrations across the country
A delegation of federal ministers was flown to Quetta on Thursday to persuade the angry demonstrators to end the protest. The delegation, lead by the interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, held meetings with representatives of the Hazara Shia community and leaders of Shia religious parties.
