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QUETTA: Intelligence officials revealed today that a female suicide bomber carried out the first attack on a bus carrying students of Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University earlier on Saturday.

At least 25 people, including the deputy commissioner of Quetta, 14 students of a women’s university and four nurses were killed on Saturday when a bomb tore through a bus, followed by a suicide attack and a gun-battle in the Bolan Medical College hospital, where the injured students were taken for treatment.

Banned outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts.

An intelligence official, who requested not to be named, told Dawn.com that a female suicide bomber managed to sneak into the university bus. "When all the students gathered inside the bus, she blew herself up", he said.

Officials said they had no information about the identity of the female suicide bomber.

Moreover, intelligence officials said after the female bomber blew up herself in the bus, a second male bomber followed suit and struck inside the crowded Bolan Medical Complex Hospital to wreak maximum damage.

According to the intelligence personnel, the male suicide bomber was waiting inside BMC Hospital ward for the arrival of high level officials, including the Chief Secretary, and blew up himself when they reached.
Quetta Police Chief Mir Zubair Mehmood also told Dawn.com that the Deputy Commissioner of Quetta Abdul Mansoor Kakar was killed as result of firing outside the hospital.
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QUETTA: At least three people were killed and thirty injured in a suicide attack in Quetta, the capital of militancy-hit Balochistan province on Wednesday.

Police said a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the bus carrying Shia pilgrims in Akhtarabad area of Quetta.

The pilgrims were coming from neighboring Iran to Quetta when they were targeted. The injured include women, children and five police personnel.

Syed Ahmed Mobeen, the Deputy Inspector General Police told Dawn.com that the suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the passenger bus.

"We have found the legs of suicide bomber from the spot," he added.

The injured were immediately rushed to nearby Bolan Medical Complex Hospital for medical treatment.

Security in and around BMC hospital was tightened to avoid occurrence of another untoward incident.

Emergency was imposed in the hospital and doctors and paramedics were called to treat the injured. The strength of the blast severely damaged the police vehicle as well.

Mobeen said the pilgrims bus caught fire after the blast. Fire fighters were rushed from Quetta city to put off the roaring flames of the fire.

Frontier Corps and Police were quick to the site of the attack. The road was blocked as an investigation into the incident was now underway.

Militants have been targeting the pilgrims coming from Iran for last more than six years in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan. Security was placed on high alert in and around Quetta on the eve of new year.

However, despite strict security the suicide bomber managed to target the pilgrims' bus.

The attack in Quetta has drawn strong condemnation from numerous political figures.

Prme Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Mamnoon Hussain have condemned the terrorist attack in the strongest terms.

Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan, Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali and Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Altaf Hussain have also condemned the attack.

The Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) have also condemned the attack and lashed out at the government for being unable to stop terrorist attacks in the country.

The MWM have also announced three days of mourning.
DAWN.COM
 
(إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ)
 
yaar yeh log kab sudhren gay ? ? when these will understand that its not the way to treat any one in islam :cry: one suicide jacket can never give them jannah ...
stop this madness , :(
 
(إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ) :(
 
yaar yeh log kab sudhren gay ? ? when these will understand that its not the way to treat any one in islam :cry: one suicide jacket can never give them jannah ...
stop this madness , :(

Terrorist and their petrol dollars financed ideology has nothing to do with Islam.
 
they do all this on the name of Islam and yet pigs parties like JI and JUI and IK are in their support :(

Calling your self a Muslim and being one are Two different things.Islam is being used by people to further their cause or political life.
 
Condolences to families and friends of all who are affected... very sad incident.
 
Calling your self a Muslim and being one are Two different things.Islam is being used by people to further their cause or political life.

yeah i agree , but if educated peoples like IK can have soft corner for them and their ideology than " is mulk ka Allah hi Hafiz hai "
 
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