A bomb attack on a crowded grocery market in Quetta, south-west Pakistan,a Shia-dominated neighbourhood,has left at least 65 people dead and more than 180 wounded.
Police said an unknown number of casualties were still trapped under rubble after the explosion in the ethnic Hazara area of the south-west city of Quetta
Outlawed Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was reported to have said it was behind the latest bombing.
The Hazaras, an ethnic group who migrated from Afghanistan more than 100 years ago, are angry at what they say is a lack of protection against attacks by Sunni militants.
Pakistan's minority Shia population has become a target for extremists who view them as heretics and proxies of Iran.
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