Ten killed in Quetta hospital bomb blast
PAKISTAN - 16 APRIl 2010
QUETTA: A suicide bomber killed 10 people, including a TV journalist and senior police officials, in a suspected sectarian attack inside a hospital in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Friday.
A member of parliament from the ruling Pakistan People's Party was among the scores wounded in the attack outside the emergency ward of the hospital in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, officials said.
Ten people, including two senior police officials, were killed in the attack and another 47 wounded, provincial police chief Rehmatullah Niazi told reporters.
A cameraman from the private TV news channel Samaa was among the dead while five other reporters sustained injuries.
They were in the hospital to cover the arrival of the body of a man killed in a drive-by shooting earlier in the day.
Another senior police official said it was a suicide attack and a severed head had been found at the scene. It had not been verified that it was the bomber's head. The official said it appeared to be a sectarian attack against Shias.
Police said 15 kg of explosives were used in the bomb that badly damaged the emergency ward building. Broken window glass and pools of bloods marked the scene of the attack.
Source: DAWN Media Group