Quetta civil hospital bomb blast : 55 killed, over 100 injured in blast at hospital in Pakistan

At least 55 people, mostly lawyers, were today killed and over 100 others injured when a powerful bomb ripped through a government-run hospital in Quetta in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province, in a suspected suicide attack followed by gunfire. The blast at Civil Hospital came hours after unidentified gunmen shot dead president of Balochistan Bar Association (BA) Advocate Bilal Anwar Kasi in the provincial capital following which lawyers had brought his body to the hospital, according to police and rescue officials. Read More: World News Today