pic of bus carrying Ismaili community members, targeted by terrorists wearing police uniforms near Safoora #Karachi pic.twitter.com/3ygFTW0Str — Khalid Khan™ (@khalidkhan787) May 13,

The attack in Karachi is deeply saddening & utterly condemnable. Our thoughts are with the families of the deceased. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 13, 2015

We stand firmly with the people of Pakistan in this hour of grief. I wish all those injured a quick recovery. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 13,

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कराची में इस्माइली समुदाय की बस पर हमला; 47 की मौत, 24 जख्मी

KARACHI: Gunmen donning police uniforms killed at least 47 people from minority Shia Ismaili community in an attack on a bus in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, police officials said."Six to eight armed men on motorcycles opened fire on a bus at Safoora Chorangi, Gulistan-e-Johar area of Karachi, killing at least 43 passengers," a police official said.A senior police official said the attackers entered the bus and shot the passengers in the head."It was a targeted attack," Sindh police inspector general Ghulam Haider Jamali told reporters.Television channels carried pictures of a pink bus covered in bullet holes and lines of waiting ambulances.The death toll could further rise as about 20 others are seriously injured. The injured and dead were shifted to various hospitals by rescue workers.Taliban have claimed responsibility of the attack, Times Now reported.Police and Rangers arrived at the scene and started manhunt.More than 60 people were on the board the bus which was carrying the people of Ismaili community from Al-Azhar Garden area of the city to their place of worship near Aysha Manzil, police said.Ismaili community is a branch of Shia Muslims and they are considered very peaceful people.The attack came a day after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Kabul and declared that enemies of Afghanistan are also enemies of Pakistan.Pakistan has seen a rise in sectarian violence in recent years particularly against minority Shias who represent around 20 per cent of the country's Muslim population.Taliban splinter groups have bombed several mosques belonging to religious minorities this year.In March, suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80. Days later, a bomb after Friday prayers wounded 12 people outside a minority Bohra mosque in Karachi.In February, 20 people were killed in an attack on a Shia mosque in the northeastern city of Peshawar, and 60 were killed in a January attack on a Shia mosque in the southern province of Sindh.