This article is from the source 'bbc' and was first published or seen on . It last changed over 40 days ago and won't be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22919001
The article has changed 6 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
| Version 1 | Version 2 |
|---|---|
| Pakistan blast kills female students | Pakistan blast kills female students |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| At least 11 students and have been killed and about 20 hurt in a blast on a bus at a university for women in the western Pakistani city of Quetta. | |
| "It was an improvised explosive device placed in the women university bus," police chief Zubair Mahmood said. | "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. | 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. | 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 planted on their bus exploded, police said. | |
| Hospital sources say some of the wounded are in critical condition. | Hospital sources say some of the wounded are in critical condition. |
| No group has said it carried out the attack. | |
| Later another explosion was reported at the hospital where the victims were being treated, Police and militants exchanged fire there, according to eyewitnesses. | |
| There is no word so far on any casualties in the second attack. | |
| The bombings came hours after militants carried out a rocket attack against a historic home in the Ziarat area of Balochistan, which was used by Pakistan's founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah. | |
| The house is said to have been severely damaged. | |
| Last month the Taliban killed at least 11 people in an attack on security forces in Quetta. | Last month the Taliban killed at least 11 people in an attack on security forces in Quetta. |