The sectarian militant outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, has accepted responsibility for Tuesday's gun attacks on Shiite Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan's Baluchistan province which left 29 people dead.
The bus carrying 45 pilgrims to the town of Taftan in Iran was attacked by militants in Baluchistan's Mastung district, about 50 km from Quetta, the provincial capital.
The attackers first stopped the bus and killed 26 Shia pilgrims. They later attacked an ambulance carrying injured people to hospital, killing three more.
The sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was banned by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in 2001.
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