A woman lashkar-e-Jhangvi suicide bomber carried out the devastating attack on a university bus carrying women and her male accomplice struck a hospital in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, police said, as the death toll today rose to 26 in the multiple strikes.
The banned sectarian outfit lashkar-e-Jhangvi (leJ) has claimed responsibility for yesterday’s attacks on the bus and at the Bolan Medical Complex, saying they were carried out in retaliation for a raid against the group by security forces.
A security official said the first blast was carried out by a woman suicide bomber on the bus of the Sardar Bahadur Khan University for women medical students in which fourteen students were killed. About 40 students and teachers were in the bus, waiting to go home after classes. PTI