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Pakistan mourns victims of hospital attack

Bomber targeted a group of lawyers who gathered to pay respects to a colleague shot dead just hours before the attack.

A Pakistan lawyer shouts slogans during a demonstration to condemn the suicide bombing in Quetta that killed scores of people and wounded many more in Lahore, Pakistan. [K.Chaudary/AP]
A Pakistan lawyer shouts slogans during a demonstration to condemn the suicide bombing in Quetta that killed scores of people and wounded many more in Lahore, Pakistan. [K.Chaudary/AP]
9 Aug 2016
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Pakistan was in mourning on Tuesday after an attack targeting lawyers gathered at a hospital in Quetta killed at least 70 people.

A Pakistan Taliban faction and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) both claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing.

The victims include 55 lawyers and at least two cameramen who had gathered at the Civil Hospital in Balochistan province to pay their final respects to another lawyer, Bilal Anwar Kasi, President of the Balochistan Bar Association.

Kasi was killed by gunmen just hours before the attack.

Schools, colleges, businesses and government institutions were closed in Balochistan, where the provincial government began a three-day mourning period.

To express solidarity with the victims, many of whom were lawyers, and their families, Pakistan’s legal fraternity will observe a countrywide, three-day boycott of courts on a call given by the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Pakistan Bar Council.

People carry the coffin of a victim of the suicide attack. [Arshad Butt/AP]
People carry the coffin of a victim of the suicide attack. [Arshad Butt/AP]
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A man reacts after receiving news that his relative was killed in the bomb blast. [Jamal Taraqai/EPA]
A man reacts after receiving news that his relative was killed in the bomb blast. [Jamal Taraqai/EPA]
Pakistani journalists shout slogans during a protest to mourn the victims of the attack. [Arshad Arbab/EPA]
Pakistani journalists shout slogans during a protest to mourn the victims of the attack. [Arshad Arbab/EPA]
Residents light candles to honour victims of the blast during a vigil in Peshawar, Pakistan. [Fayaz Aziz/Reuters]
Residents light candles to honour victims of the blast during a vigil in Peshawar, Pakistan. [Fayaz Aziz/Reuters]
Pakistani lawyers hold a demonstration to condemn the suicide bombing that killed dozens of their colleagues. [K.Chaudary/AP]
Pakistani lawyers hold a demonstration to condemn the suicide bombing that killed dozens of their colleagues. [K.Chaudary/AP]
People comfort a man mourning the death of a family member who was killed in the blast. [Arshad Butt/AP]
People comfort a man mourning the death of a family member who was killed in the blast. [Arshad Butt/AP]
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Pakistani journalists chant slogans during a protest in commemoration of the two slain journalists. [Rahat Dar/EPA]
Pakistani journalists chant slogans during a protest in commemoration of the two slain journalists. [Rahat Dar/EPA]
A journalist holds a picture of a journalist Shahzad Khan who, along with another journalist, was killed in the bomb blast. [Rahat Dar/EPA]
A journalist holds a picture of a journalist Shahzad Khan who, along with another journalist, was killed in the bomb blast. [Rahat Dar/EPA]

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