Carnage as Pakistan hospital bomb kills 70QUETTA, Pakistan: A suicide bomb packed with ball bearings tore through a Pakistani hospital Monday and killed at least 70 people, as witnesses described tearful staff rushing towards the smoking blast site to help the wounded. In 2010 a bomb killed 13 people outside the casualty department of a hospital in Karachi, where victims of an earlier attack were being treated as anxious relatives gathered. An Agence France-Presse journalist was about 20 meters away when the bomb went off. “The death toll has risen to 70 and there are 112 injured,” the head of the provincial health department, Dr Masood Nausherwani, told reporters. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either the blast or the shooting of the lawyer.

Source: Manila Times August 08, 2016 12:56 UTC