A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in a village in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Thursday, killing at least 11 Shia minority Muslims, including six children, and wounding 12 others. According to reports, the bomber entered the mosque wearing a burqa, where worshippers had gathered to observe the holy month of Muharram, and detonated his explosive-laden vest.

A local administration official said the suicide bomber appeared to be around 18 years old, reported the Press Trust of India. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but sectarian violence carried out by Sunni militants against the minority Shias has claimed thousands of lives in the country over the past decade. On Monday, a bomb explosion on a bus killed at least 11 people in Balochistan's capital city Quetta, while 22 more were injured.