A series of six blasts in Pakistan has left 115 people dead and over 270 injured, raising the bloodshed terrorist violence in the country.
Serial bombings targeted the restive Pakistani provinces of Balochistan, its capital Quetta and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, including twin suicide blast on a snooker hall of the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta.
Two suicide bombers blew themselves – one into the hall and second car bomb detonated by remote control, killed 81 people in Quetta’s snooker hall, the largest concentration of Shiites Muslims live, as source report.
Many people wounded in second bombing when they rushed to the scene after the first blast including several reporters, cameramen and technicians. Among dead, mostly were police officers, journalists and rescue workers, a police officer said.
The most bloody and deadliest day in recent years triggered Pakistan, being continuously targeted by radical Islamists, militant separatists and terrorists.
As per media information, a militant Sunni group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi who have strong link to the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for attack.
Earlier the day, two bombings triggered in Pakistan killing a total of 40 people and more than 100 wounded. The targeted areas included a paramilitary soldiers’ commercial area of Quetta and another in a crowded Sunni mosque in the northwest Mingora, in Swat valley.
Still no groups come to take responsibility for these attacks.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned Thursday’s serial attacks that raised terrorist violence in Pakistan.
