At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured in a suicide blast targeting a Shiite procession in the southern Pakistan city of Jacobabad Friday, police and hospital officials said.

"It was a suicide attack and many injured and bodies were brought to the Civil Hospital," senior police officer Zafar Iqbal told AFP, with hospital chief Dr Altaf Wagan confirming that at least 15 bodies and more than 36 injured people had been brought in.