Two explosions have occured at a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's eastern city of Dera Ghazi Khan, killing at least 41 people and injuring 70.
A city police officer has said that 'the blasts took place one after another. Two suicide attackers came on foot and blew themselves up when police on duty stopped them.'
Police said that the blasts were caused by suicide bombers outside the shrine of the 13th century Sufi saint Ahmed Sultan, popularly known as Sakhi Sarwar, in the Dera Ghazi Khan district.
Hundreds of worshippers had gathered at the shrine for a religious ceremony when the attacks took place.
It is believed that Al-Qaeda linked Taliban militants abhor the unorthodox Sufi interpretation of Islam and have attacked Sufi targets in Pakistan several times.
