QUETTA, Pakistan, Aug 8 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 63 people and wounded dozens more in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta, according to officials in the violence-plagued southwestern province of Baluchistan. “There are many wounded, so the death toll could rise,” said Rehmat Saleh Baloch, the provincial health minister. A faction of the Pakistiani Taliban, Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, has taken responsibility for the attack, according to the group’s spokesman. Jamaat-ur-Ahrar is the same faction that carried out a bombing in the city of Lahore in March, killing 72 people at a park filled with children and families. Abdul Rehman Miankhel, a senior official at the government-run Civil Hospital, where the explosion occurred, told reporters that at least 63 people had been killed, with more than 50 wounded, as the casualty toll spiked from initial estimates.

Source: Huffington Post August 08, 2016 06:16 UTC