QUETTA (PAKISTAN) - A Taliban 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. Pakistani hospitals have been targeted by militants before, with a bomb killing 13 at a Karachi hospital in 2010. "The death toll has risen to 70 and there are 112 injured," the head of the provincial health department, Dr Masood Nausherwani, told reporters Monday. Police confirmed the attack was a suicide blast. Nurses and lawyers wept as medics from inside the hospital rushed out to help dozens of injured, he said.

Source: Bangkok Post August 08, 2016 14:26 UTC