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Jamaat-ur-Ahrar claims hospital bomb attack that killed 70
[Dhaka Tribune] A jacket wallah in Pakistain killed at least 70 people and maimed more than a hundred on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta, according to officials in the southwestern province of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... The bomber struck as a crowd of mostly lawyers and journalists crammed into the emergency department to accompany the body of a prominent lawyer who had been shot and killed in the city earlier in the day, Faridullah, a news hound who was among the maimed, told Rooters. Abdul Rehman Miankhel, a bigwig at the government-run Civil Hospital, where the kaboom occurred, told news hounds that at least 70 people had been killed, with more than 112 maimed, as the casualty toll spiked from initial estimates. "There are many maimed, so the corpse count could rise," said Rehmat Saleh Baloch, the provincial health minister. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Islamist holy warrior Pak Taliban group, grabbed credit for the attack in an email. It was not immediately clear if the group had carried out the bombing, as it is believed to have grabbed credit for attacks in the past that it was not involved in. "The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain Jamaat-ur-Ahrar (TTP-JA) takes responsibility for this attack, and pledges to continue carrying out such attacks," said front man Ehsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... in the statement. Only last week, Jamaat was added to the United States’ list of global terrorists, triggering sanctions. Television footage showed scenes of chaos at the hospital in Quetta, with panicked people fleeing through debris as smoke filled the hospital corridors. Bodies lay strewn across a hospital courtyard shortly after the blast and pools of blood collected as emergency rescuers rushed to identify survivors. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-09 |
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