{"id":27543,"date":"2016-08-08T02:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T02:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/pakistan-blast-at-quetta-hospital-after-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T02:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T02:33:43","slug":"pakistan-blast-at-quetta-hospital-after-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/pakistan-blast-at-quetta-hospital-after-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Blast at Quetta hospital after lawyer killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{At least 30 people killed in blast and several injured as suicide bomber targets gathering of lawyers in emergency room.}<\/p>\n<p>A blast at the accident and emergency department of a hospital in Pakistan&#8217;s Quetta, where a group of mourning lawyers were gathered to accompany the body of a murdered colleague, has killed and wounded several.<\/p>\n<p>At least 30 people were killed in the suicide blast on Monday, Quetta police chief Zahoor Afridi told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>At least 30 others were wounded, Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The blast occurred after a number of lawyers and some journalists had gathered at the hospital following the death of the president of the Balochistan Bar Association in a separate shooting incident early this morning,&#8221; said Bugti.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the dead appeared to be wearing black suits and ties.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers were at the unit because earlier in the day armed men, who are still unidentified, had shot Bilal Anwar Kasi, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Kasi, who later succumbed to his injuries, was the former president of the Balochistan Bar Association. He had been on his way to work when gunmen attacked him.<\/p>\n<p>Several people were wounded as they rushed to leave the hospital, Dawn reported.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani media said that journalists were among those wounded, with at least one cameraman killed. That cameraman was named by social media users as Aaj TV&#8217;s Shehzad Khan.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate claims of responsibility for either attack. <\/p>\n<p>Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has oil and gas resources but is afflicted by fighting, violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and a separatist rebellion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14044 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ed8a72917bee4b29a5833784b672cb10_18.jpg\" alt=\"Lawyers were gathered at the hospital to accompany their colleague&#039;s body when the blast struck \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{At least 30 people killed in blast and several injured as suicide bomber targets gathering of lawyers in emergency room.} A blast at the accident and emergency department of a hospital in Pakistan&#8217;s Quetta, where a group of mourning lawyers were gathered to accompany the body of a murdered colleague, has killed and wounded several. 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