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Daish claims suicide bombing at Pakistan hospital: Agency
First responders and volunteers transport the injured and dead away from the scene of a bomb blast outside a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan August 8, 2016. - Reuters/Naseer Ahmed
The Daish group on Monday claimed it was behind a suicide bombing that tore through a Pakistani hospital, killing at least 70 people, the Daish-linked Amaq news agency said.
"A martyrdom bomber of the Islamic State detonates his explosive belt on a group of personnel belonging to the Ministry of Justice and the Pakistani Police in the city of Quetta," Amaq said.
The bomber struck a crowd of some 200 people gathered at the Civil Hospital in the Balochistan provincial capital of Quetta after the fatal shooting of a senior local lawyer earlier in the day.
READ: Pakistan hospital bombing: Death toll in Quetta rises to 45
"A martyrdom bomber of the Islamic State detonates his explosive belt on a group of personnel belonging to the Ministry of Justice and the Pakistani Police in the city of Quetta," Amaq said.
The bomber struck a crowd of some 200 people gathered at the Civil Hospital in the Balochistan provincial capital of Quetta after the fatal shooting of a senior local lawyer earlier in the day.
READ: Pakistan hospital bombing: Death toll in Quetta rises to 45