Pakistan: More than 54 killed and oven hundred injured in Mastung blast
A suicide bomb attack targeting a religious procession in Balochistan’s Mastung has killed dozens of people and wounded many others.
On a cold Friday evening, dozens of people huddled outside Quetta Civil Hospital, their bodies heaving with sobs. Just hours earlier, a suicide bomb blast had ripped through a religious gathering in Mastung, Balochistan killing at least 52 people and wounding dozens of others.
Barakat Ali, a young man standing helplessly outside the hospital’s trauma centre said:
"All I saw were dead bodies and injured after the blast"
Saifullah said, Dust and storm, that's what I saw when I stood, a young man possibly in his late 30s who lost a brother in the blast
The explosion happened near a mosque in Mastung, a district in the tense southwestern province of Baluchistan, according to government administrator Atta Ullah.
Meanwhile, a separate blast at a mosque inside a police station in Hangu, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killed at least four people and injured 12.
Most of the worshippers were police officers.
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Maximum Damage
Authorities say the attacker detonated himself in the middle of a crowd that had gathered near a mosque to take part in a procession celebrating the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. “The suicide bomber blew himself up inside the procession to cause maximum damage”.
Shortly after the explosion in Balochistan province, in southwestern Pakistan, another bombing was carried out at a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in the country’s northwest. At least five people were killed in the second attack.
At the hospital in Quetta, the largest city of Balochistan, the survivors who narrowly escaped death were grappling with the aftermath of the attack.
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