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Hundreds of mourners from Pakistan’s Shia Hazara Muslim community have defied official calls for a fourth day to end their sit-in protest and bury the bodies of miners recently killed in a brutal attack by the Takfiri Daesh terrorists in the country’s restive southwest. The protesters, estimated to be 2,500 in number, continued to block the roads on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province and demanded better protection from the Pakistani government and police. The protest came after at least 10 miners were kidnapped before dawn on Sunday (03-January-2021) near the remote coal mine in the southwestern mountainous Machh area, 60 kilometers southeast of Quetta City. Several of them were beheaded by the militants. Hours later, the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for the massacre.