Video - More Than 40 Killed After Gunmen Attack Bus In Karachi. (rferl).
Police Superintendent Najib Khan said there were 16 women among the dead and more than a dozen people were wounded.
Reports said some young children survived by hiding under the bodies of the dead.
Security forces were deployed outside two hospitals in Karachi where the wounded were taken for treatment.
Television channels carried pictures of a pink bus riddled with bullet holes while ambulances lined up nearby to take away the wounded and the dead.
A spokesman for Jundullah, Ahmed Marwat, told RFE/RL that the group will continue to carry out attacks against Shi'a, including Ismailis, and Christians.
The Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group has targeted Shi'a and foreign tourists in the past.
Jundullah pledged loyalty to Islamic State militants in November 2014.
The Ismaili community is a minority Shi'ite Muslim sect in majority-Sunni Pakistan.Read the full story here.
Update: Islamic State leaflets found at Karachi bus attack site, 47 Shiites massacred
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VIDEO: 43 members of minority Shi'ite Muslim sect killed when gunmen open fire on Karachi bus. http://t.co/UeqJzeCcK6 pic.twitter.com/bT47BTB4FX
— RFE/RL (@RFERL) May 13, 2015
@MFS001 @EjmAlrai @DR_SHAHID @MaxAbrahms @20committee this was claimed by #IS wilayat Khorasan (leaflets on site) http://t.co/GCrxicXvG1
— маяковский (@moscow_ghost) May 13, 2015
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