Story highlights Two bombers attack church in Quetta, but only one detonates his vestChurch was packed with more than 400 people, police sayQuetta, Pakistan (CNN) A suicide bomber attacked a church packed with worshippers Sunday in Pakistan, leaving seven people dead and more than 20 others injured, authorities say. Two attackers targeted a Methodist church in Quetta, but only one managed to detonate his vest, said Sarfaraz Bugti, the interior minister of Balochistan province. The second attacker was shot by a church security guard before he detonated his explosives, Bugti said. More than 400 people were in the church at the time of the attack, he said. More than two dozen others were wounded, said Wasim Baig, a spokesman for Quetta Civil Hospital, where victims were transported.
Source: CNN December 17, 2017 08:48 UTC