On 16 February 2013, at least 110 people were killed and 200 injured after a bomb hidden in a water tank exploded at a market in
Hazara Town on the outskirts of
Quetta, the capital city of
Balochistan,
Pakistan. Most of the victims were members of the predominantly
Shia Twelver ethnic
Hazara community, and authorities expected the death toll to rise due to the large number of serious injuries. The
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group claimed responsibility for the blast, the second major attack against the Shia Hazaras
in a month.