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Taliban suicide bomber kills 93 at Pakistan hospital
At least 93 people were killed and over 80 others injured on Monday when a Taliban suicide bomber struck mourners, mostly lawyers, gathered at a hospital in Pakistan\'s restive Balochistan province in one of the deadliest terror attacks in the country this year.
Karachi: At least 93 people were killed and over 80 others injured on Monday when a Taliban suicide bomber struck mourners, mostly lawyers, gathered at a hospital in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province in one of the deadliest terror attacks in the country this year.
The bomber struck over 200 mourners at the government-run Civil Hospital in Quetta where the body of prominent lawyer Bilal Anwar Kasi, who was shot dead earlier in the day, was being brought. Kasi was the president of Balochistan Bar Association (BA) Advocate.
A loud explosion was heard at the emergency department where Kasi's body was brought for an autopsy. Gunfire followed the explosion. Police said it was a suicide attack where 8kg of explosives were used.
"No crater found at the site of the attack and it appears the bomber had the explosives strapped to his best," a police officer said. Bomb Disposal Squad officials also confirmed the explosion was a suicide bombing.
A spokesman for Jamaatul Ahara, a faction of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, said that his faction "accepts responsibility" for the attack in the southwestern city of Quetta and vowed more attacks "until the imposition of an Islamic system in Pakistan".
