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| Pakistan blast kills female students | Pakistan blast kills female students |
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| At least 11 students and have been killed 22 wounded in a blast on a bus at a university for women in the north-western Pakistani city of Quetta. | |
| "It was an improvised explosive device placed in the women university bus," police chief Zubair Mahmood said. | |
| Quetta is the capital of Balochistan province, which has seen a surge in militant violence in recent months. | |
| Some attacks are carried out by separatists and others by Islamists who oppose women's education. | |
| In the latest, the students were about to go home when a bomb, apparently planted on their university bus, exploded. | |
| Hospital sources say some of the wounded are in critical condition. | |
| Last month the Taliban killed at least 11 people in an attack on security forces in Quetta. |