First responders and volunteers transport an injured man away from the scene of a bomb blast outside a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan August 8, 2016. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed
A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than a hundred on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta, according to officials in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.
The bomber struck as a crowd of mostly lawyers and journalists crammed into the emergency department to accompany the body of a prominent lawyer who had been shot and killed in the city earlier in the day, Faridullah, a reporter who was among the wounded, told Reuters.
Abdul Rehman Miankhel, a senior official at the government-run Civil Hospital, where the explosion occurred, told reporters that at least 70 people had been killed, with more than 112 wounded, as the casualty toll spiked from initial estimates.
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If this report is true, we can expect a major and decisive battle for Aleppo. The "rebels" seem to have overcome their differences and are fighting under the Army of Conquesy umbrella. The SAA/allies may be seeing this as the opportunity to destroy this large concentration of enemies and tip the balance permanently.
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/southfront-syrian-army-deploys-100-tanks-400-bmps-aleppo/
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