LJ claims suicide attack that kills 11

QUETTA: A suicide bomber killed 11 people, including a TV journalist and senior police officials, in an attack inside a hospital in Quetta on Friday. Banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed the attack.

A member of parliament from the Pakistan People”s Party was among the scores wounded in the attack outside the emergency ward of the hospital in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan, officials said.

“Eleven people, including two senior police officials, were killed in the attack and another 47 wounded,” police and hospitals sources said.

A cameraman from the private TV news channel was among the dead while five other reporters sustained injuries.

They were in the hospital to cover the arrival of the body of a man killed in a drive-by shooting earlier in the day.

Another senior police official said it was a suicide attack and a severed head had been found at the scene. It had not been verified that it was the bomber”s head.

Police said 15 kg (33 lb) of explosives were used in the bomb that badly damaged the emergency ward building. Broken window glass and pools of bloods marked the scene of the attack.