Bombing Attack at Pakistan Hospital Kills Dozens
A powerful bomb blast has killed at least 70 people and wounded dozens more at a hospital in the city of Quetta in south-west Pakistan on Monday morning. Among the dead were lawyers and journalists, according to officials in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.
“The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ur-Ahrar (TTP-JA) takes responsibility for this attack, and pledges to continue carrying out such attacks,” said spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan in the statement.
Monday’s attack was the worst in Pakistan since an Easter Day bombing ripped through a Lahore park, killing at least 72 people. Jamaat-ur-Ahrar also claimed responsibility for that atrocity.
Scores killed as bomb strikes hospital in Pakistan's Quetta https://t.co/rJulVKh1mC pic.twitter.com/TZlr7goNJJ
— FRANCE 24 (@FRANCE24) August 8, 2016
#Balochistan Home Minister says he is having the #QuettaBlast "personally investigated". Acha. Dozens killed. https://t.co/MEyeVvRbGV
— Mehreen Zahra-Malik (@mehreenzahra) August 8, 2016
Shahzad Khan 30 yrs #Aajtv cameraman killed in #QuettaBlast.We mourn another fellow journo.Leaves behind wife,2 kids pic.twitter.com/gvocFW5lDD
— Munizae Jahangir (@MunizaeJahangir) August 8, 2016
this image of a female doctor treating an injured lawyer after #QuettaBlast. no words!
pic via @Dawn_News @dawn_com pic.twitter.com/vgLKXbafmP— Sumaira Jajja (@SumairaJajja) August 8, 2016
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