AN explosion shattered a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in an attack yesterday that killed at least 32 worshippers during Muslim prayers, officials said in Quetta, Pakistan. Angry Shi’ites rioted in the streets of this south-western city, burning cars and tires.

A bomb ripped through a Shi’ite Muslim mosque deep in the interior of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, killing 12 worshippers, all of them women, and wounding several others, hospital officials said today.