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A state run hospital in Quetta, Pakistan was bombed Monday.
Police and Pakistani officials said the attack appeared to have been a suicide bombing but there was no immediate confirmation of that detail. Two journalists working for Pakistani news channels were also killed in the attack, according to Shahzada Zulfiqar, the President of the Quetta Press Club.
He said that the emergency ward of the civil hospital was completely destroyed in the blast.
The squad said that they have found limbs from the blast site, which might be of the bomber, but more investigations are being made to further confirm the nature of the explosion.
Rehman says when he looked up he saw bodies of the dead and the wounding crying out for help. He said lawyers across the country will observe three days of mourning and will stay away from court appointments to express solidarity with those killed in the attack.
But he said he did not know he would “see the bodies of dozens of other lawyers” killed and wounded at the hospital.
The blast in the Balochistan provincial capital Quetta came as up to 200 people gathered at the Civil Hospital after the fatal shooting of a senior local lawyer, AFP reporters on the scene said. Immediately after the attacks, Baluchistan’s Interior Minister condemned the attacks as acts of terrorism.
Television footage showed scenes of chaos, with panicked people fleeing through debris as smoke filled the hospital corridors.
The explosion occurred when lawyers and some journalists had gathered at the hospital with the body of Bilal Anwar Kasi, president of the Balochistan Bar Association who was shot dead earlier in the day, media reports said.
He said: “No one will be allowed to disturb peace in the province that has been restored due to countless sacrifices of security forces, police and the people of Balochistan”.
He also instructed health officials to provide the best treatment possible to those wounded in the attack.
Soon after the incident, provincial Chief Minister Sanaullah Zehri called a high-level meeting to take stock of the situation. According to a military statement, he ordered intelligence agencies to track down and apprehend all those linked to Monday’s attack.
“There was one in 2013 where they killed a police officer and then a suicide bomber blew himself up amongst the mourners, killing at least 30 people”.
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And Anwallulah Kakar, an official government spokesperson for the Baluchistan province announced that an official investigation into the deaths was underway.
