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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Shiite Muslims in the Pakistani city of Quetta are refusing to bury scores of people killed in a devastating weekend bombing until authorities respond to their demands to take military action against the Sunni extremists behind the attack.
The macabre protest, now in its third day, is an expression of the anger and frustration among Shiites in the southwestern province of Balochistan, whose capital is Quetta, over the government's failure to shield them from a series of bloody sectarian attacks in recent months.
"We want the military to protect Shiites and want it to take control of law and order in the province," Syed Dawood Agha, president of the Balochistan Shiite Conference and the organizer of the protest, said Monday. "Civilian government has failed to maintain law and order in the province."
The outlawed Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has said it carried out the attack Saturday on the outskirts of Quetta in which police say a suicide bomber rammed a water tanker laden with explosives into a crowded marketplace, setting off a huge blast that killed 89 people and wounded at least 180 others.
