QUETTA, Pakistan: A powerful bomb ripped through a Sufi Muslim Saint shrine in southwestern Pakistan leaving at least 35 people dead and scores other injured.

The home-made device exploded as visitors were eating dinner at around 1730 GMT Saturday in the remote town of Fatahpur, around 300km (185 miles) from Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.

“I can confirm that 35 bodies have been counted,” local district administrator Mahmud Mari said.

Syed Kami Shah, the brother of the shrine's custodian, said between 10,000 and 20,000 had gathered for an annual gathering at the shrine of Cheesal Shah, and many were having their evening meals when the bomb went off.

Sufism is a mystical branch of Islam. Devotees from Islam's Sunni and Shia sects were at the site, as well as a number of Hindus, Shah added.

According to the shrine caretaker Faqir Ghulam Hussain the final toll could be higher. “Limbs are still scattered over a large area,” he said. “It was just like Doomsday.”        

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