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Gunmen storm Quetta hospital
Gunmen have attacked a hospital in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, hours after an explosion on a bus killed at least 11 female university students.The interior minister says a siege of part of the hospital where the wounded are being treated has now ended. Nurses, hospital security personnel and a senior city official were among the 10 people in the stand-off. An extremist Sunni militant group, Laskar-e-Jhangvi, told the BBC it carried out both attacks. A man calling himself spokesman for the group said they were a revenge for an earlier raid by security forces against the group in which a woman and children were killed. The latest violence began when a bomb exploded on a bus carrying female students at a university. "It was an improvised explosive device placed in the women university bus," police chief Zubair Mahmood said. Later explosions rocked the medical centre where the students were being treated. Militants armed with grenades were positioned there and exchanged fire with members of the security forces who rushed to the scene. Posted by: tipper 2013-06-15 |
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