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At least 70 Dead in attack in Pakistan
The IED exploded in front of a clinic, and perhaps it was a targeted attack on a group of lawyers and police officers. In Pakistan’s Quetta were killed, numerous people injured or.
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Attack on hospital in Pakistan
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The Explosion occurred in front of the hospital in the city of Quetta, in the troubled South-West Pakistan. There had gathered a group of lawyers and police officers, after a Morning in the country, renowned lawyer Bilal Anwar Kasi of the Unknown had been murdered. In the case of the Explosion were killed, according to the latest figures, at least 70 people. More than 100 people were injured, many severely. The Minister of the interior of the province, Sarfaraz Bugti, said the media, probably a suicide bomber had carried out the attack.
On the way to work
The lawyer Bilal Anwar Kasi had been shot on the Morning of Unknown, as he left his house to go to work. The provincial government was now a three-day mourning period.
Taliban group is committed
Meanwhile, a group of the Pakistani Taliban, the attack is known. A spokesman of Jamaatul Ahara, one of the radical Islamic Thereek-e-Taliban (TTP), wrote in an E-Mail to journalists that his group “will accept” the responsibility. Until the introduction of an “Islamic system in Pakistan,” will you commit further attacks.
If the grouping has committed the attack really is, however, unclear. You should have taken in the past, responsibility for attacks in which she was not involved.
Earlier, had reported to the Agency with information that a IS-close to the source to word and said that the “Islamic state” claim for the attack. An official statement IS there was not.
The struggle for influence
Quetta is the capital of the province of Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran. There are radical Islamists groups are active, are guilty of bloody attacks on the Shia minority. In addition, armed separatists are fighting for influence. These have increased military offensives intensified the conflict in the Region.
ml/kle/gri (dpa, afp, ap)