Pakistani security officials check the site of a bomb blast as the minority Muslim Shia sect observes the annual Ashoura holiday in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. A bombing claimed by the Taliban killed several people at a Shiite religious procession in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, police said.

A bomb blast at a Shiite Muslim procession in Pakistan’s Sindh province for the Shiite holiday of Ashura killed 16 people on Friday and wounded at least 40, a police official said.

The blast was the second to hit the Ashura festivities in two days and came hours after a radical Sunni Muslim group threatened continued sectarian violence during the holiday.

Zafar Iqbal Awan, a local police officer in the district of Jacobabad, told Reuters 16 were dead and 40 wounded in the early evening blast.

“It was a suicide attack as the head and some other body parts of the suicide bomber were found at the site,” he said by telephone.

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