People gather as they carry a coffin of a coal miner from Shi'ite Hazara minority, who along with others got killed in an attack in Mach area of Bolan district, during a funeral in Quetta, Pakistan January 9, 2021. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani mourners buried on Saturday the bodies of 11 slain coalminers that had been put on a highway in the city of Quetta for six days in an anti-government protest.
The miners, from the minority Shi'ite Hazara sect, were killed last Sunday by Islamic State militants in their shared residential room, after which mourners refused to bury them to demand better protection from sectarian attacks.
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