(2 Sep 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Police searching mourners attending funeral ceremony
2. Dead bodies on stretchers being carried by crowd
3. Various of Shiite mourners crying by dead body
4. Various of Shiite mourners chanting
5. Wide of funeral prayers
6. Various of Shiite clerics praying in front of the bodies of bombing victims
7. Various of prayers
8. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Haider Mosvi, Shiite cleric:
"They (militants) want to destroy this country through sectarianism. They want to create misunderstanding among Sunni and Shiite. We will not accept any misunderstanding among Sunni and Shiite. We will give blood to save our country and unity of the Muslims. A group who is working against mosques, Imam Bargah's is also hitting the army. We love our country."
9. Wide of people carrying bodies
10. Wide of security in front of Imam Bargah, where blast took place
11. Mid of barbed wire
12. Burned car
13. Mid of onlookers at scene
14. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Shahban Ali, Local resident:
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"Today I feel that these were huge explosions which occurred yesterday. It was a frightful act. They are not (real) Muslims, (those) who caused the explosions in front of the Mosque, these are not (real) Muslims."
15. Various of armed security
STORYLINE
Thousands of Shiite Muslims, thumping their chests and crying, mourned on Thursday at funeral prayers for victims of a triple bombing that heaped more tragedy on Pakistan, which is already struggling to cope with devastating floods.
The blasts that targeted a Shiite ceremony late on Wednesday in the eastern city were the first major attacks since flood waters tore through the country over the past month, destroying or damaging more than one (m) million homes and prompting a major international relief effort that continues to struggle with the scale of the destruction.
At least 35 people were killed and 250 wounded in the attacks on a street procession marking the death anniversary of caliph Ali, one of Shiite Islam's most respected holy men.
Two of the blasts were apparently suicide bombs.
Afterward, crowds torched a police station and vehicles.
Authorities deployed paramilitary forces to restore order.
The bodies of eight victims, included a young child, were prayed over in a public park not far from the scene of the bombings.
Security was tight, with police searching mourners.
Their families then took them to be buried.
"While the whole nation is distressed with the sufferings of flood affected, these terrorists are involved in promoting their own agenda," Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said in a statement condemning the blasts.
Sunni militants have launched dozens of attacks against Shiites and other Islamic sects and religions in Pakistan in recent years.
The extremists believe it is permissible, even honourable, to kill members of other faiths.
Allied with al-Qaida and the Taliban, the militants are also seeking to destabilise Pakistan's US-backed government through such attacks.
They have created sanctuaries in the rugged northwest close to the Afghan border where they plan and train.
Senior Shiite leader Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi demanded more protection, but said his community would never stop organising yearly processions for Ali.
Pakistan was slow to recognise what army officers now say is the existential threat Islamist militants pose to the state.
But over the last two years and amid heavy US pressure, the army has been fighting the insurgents in different parts of the northwest where use to enjoy safe haven.
They have had some success, but the militants have proved a resilient enemy.
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