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Suicide blast at Pakistan hospital kills 40
Suicide bomb kills 40 and injures 50 at Pakistan hospital, where lawyers were mourning murdered colleague
A number of lawyers had gathered at the hospital to mourn the death of their colleague earlier today
A blast at the accident and emergency department of a hospital in Pakistan's Quetta, has left at least 40 people dead and another 50 wounded.
A group of mourning lawyers were gathered to accompany the body of a murdered colleague at the time of the attack.
"The blast occurred after a number of lawyers and some journalists had gathered at the hospital following the death of the president of the Balochistan Bar Association in a separate shooting incident early this morning," Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti told Al Jazeera.
According to reports, the lawyers were at the unit because earlier in the day armed men, who are still unidentified, had shot Bilal Anwar Kasi, who later succumbed to his injuries.
Pakistani media said that journalists were among those wounded, with at least one cameraman, named asAaj TV's Shehzad Khan, killed.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for either attack.
Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has oil and gas resources but is afflicted by fighting, violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and a separatist rebellion, Al Jazeera adds.
