Pakistani Shiite Muslims are pictured amid debris at the scene of yesterday's bomb attack site in Quetta on February 17, 2013. The death toll from a devastating bomb attack on Shiite Muslims in southwest Pakistan rose to 81 Sunday, as the community threatened protests if swift action was not taken against the killers.
QUETTA, Pakistan -- Police say at least 63 people have been killed and another 180 wounded in a bombing at a vegetable market in southwest Pakistan.
A senior police officer says the bomb was detonated by remote control in a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Quetta. The blast left many victims buried under rubble, but it's uncertain how many.
Another officer says the bomb was planted in a rickshaw parked in the crowded vegetable market, an d it exploded as dozens of women and children were shopping for the evening meal.
Local residents rushed the victims to three different area hospitals. Many of the wounded are said to be in critical condition.
It was the deadliest incident since bombings in the same city killed 86 people earlier this year and led to a dayslong protest that eventually toppled the local government.
Shiites are a minority in Pakistan, where Sunni Muslims dominate. They have been increasingly targeted for attacks by militant groups who view them as heretics and non-Muslims.