ICC Note: ISIS has claimed responsibility for yesterday’s targeted attack on Christians in Quetta, Pakistan. According to reports, ISIS gunmen attacked a group of Christians riding in a rickshaw. Three men and a women were killed on the scene with a 12-year-old girl being hospitalized following the attack. In December 2017, ISIS suicide bombers attacked Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta, killing nine and injuring dozens.  

04/03/2018 Pakistan (NPR) – ISIS says it was behind a terrorist attack on a Christian family in Quetta, Pakistan, that killed four people one day after Easter Sunday. The relatives had been riding in a rickshaw when motorcycle-riding gunmen opened fire on them.

Three men and a woman died in the attack. A fifth person riding in the rickshaw — a 12-year-old girl — survived and was taken to the hospital, Pakistan’s Dawn news agency says.

From Islamabad, NPR’s Diaa Hadid reports:

“By targeting the family on the road, the gunmen found a weak link: Pakistani forces had stepped up security around churches, to stop militants who target Christians on their holiest days. But the roads are still vulnerable.

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