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Christian Family Murdered in Easter Attack
by Elliot Friedland
April 4, 2018

Four Christians were murdered and a young girl injured in a terrorist attack in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday. Quetta is the capital of the Balochistan province in South Western Pakistan. The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. All four were members of the same family. They had been meeting relatives in a Christian area of the city. Traveling in a in a ricksha, they had just left the house where they were staying when armed men on a motorcycle drove past and opened fire. READ MORE

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