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Worst terror attack in Pakistan as suicide bomber kills 93 in crowded hospital
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded hospital here on Monday killing 70 people and injuring over 100 in one of the worst terror attacks in Pakistan this year, authorities said. The Quetta media, however, put the death toll at 93.
​Quetta: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded hospital here on Monday killing 70 people and injuring over 100 in one of the worst terror attacks in Pakistan this year, authorities said. The Quetta media, however, put the death toll at 93.
The powerful blast ripped through the emergency ward of the Civil Hospital when nearly 100 lawyers had gathered to collect the body of a prominent lawyer shot dead hours earlier in the city.
The deafening explosion, heard clearly on video, instantly killed dozens, including two television cameramen. The hospital presented a ghastly scene with bloodied bodies and body parts strewn in a small area.
Samaa TV said bodies were strewn on the floor, some still smoking, "amid pools of blood and shattered glass".
A bomb disposal squad said the suicide bomber had around 10 kg of explosives hidden in his vest, Xinhua news agency said. Police found the limbs of the bomber.
The Pakistan Taliban faction Jamaat ur Arhar claimed responsibility.
ARY News said the dead included at least 25 lawyers. As the explosion ripped through the hospital, Aaj TV cameraman Shehzad Khan could be heard on the camera reciting the "Kalma" in a groaning voice as he died.
The other cameraman to get killed was Mehmood Khan of DawnNews.
Quetta's Urdu media -- Daily Millat, Baaghi TV and Urdu Post -- however, put the death toll at 93. In any case, doctors warned that the toll could rise because some of the injured were in a serious condition.
It was the worst terrorist attack in Pakistan this year since the March 27 bombing at Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in Lahore that left 75 people dead.
As Balochistan, Pakistan's biggest province by area, declared three days of mourning, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif flew to Quetta. Army chief Raheel Sharif visited the injured in the Civil Hospital.
