Protesters in Pakistan threw rocks at police cars and set fires in the street Saturday after a bomb attack in a Shiite neighborhood killed at least 65 people. The bomb - apparently detonated by remote control -- injured at least 175 people in a crowded market in Qetta, including a number of women and children, the Los Angeles Times said. \"The death toll may rise,\" senior police officer Wazir Khan Nasir told DAWN.com. \"It was a remote-controlled bomb.\" The explosion occurred along a busy street near a school in a section of town with a large population of ethnic Hazaras, a group tied to the Shiite branch of Islam.\"It was a sectarian attack,\" the officer said. \"the [Shite]community was the target.\" DAWN.com said the explosion brought scores of police and troops to the area, and Hazara leaders issued calls for a strike Sunday to protest the attack.
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