Pakistan blast kills female students

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

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.

A homemade bomb had been planted on the bus, police say.

Later gunmen attacked the hospital where the victims were being treated. A senior city official is reported to have been killed.

Quetta is the capital of Balochistan province, which has seen a surge in militant violence in recent months.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22919001

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Misogynistic fanatics. The bane of the world.

[Dash87]

1. I won't insult roaches or excrement by making an analogy to what these 'things' that planted the

bomb are.

[CBHagman]

2. There just seems to be no end of suffering for the Pakistani people.

Horrifying news.

[ck4829]

3. Bomb a bus of university-going women, lob grenades at first responders, then shoot up the hospital

And there have been no claims of responsibility, nobody wants to claim responsibility for one of the few times you could so perfectly combine cowardice with sociopathy?

[Beacool]

4. I just about hate these people.

I despise the misogynists sons of bitches around the world who couch their misogynous beliefs by claiming a religious reason for their prejudice. They fear the power of girls and women. It's similar to the prohibition to educate AAs during the slave era. It's easier to control someone who is kept ignorant.

Women comprise over half of the world population, but are still treated as second class citizens in many countries. In some places they rank even lower than their farm animals.




Poor girls, rest in peace.

[jessie04]

5. All fundamentalists are like this.

Doesn't matter what religion.

[bitchkitty]

10. I know what you mean, but

you cannot compare the plight of women in Pakistan with the plight of women under fundamentalist doctrine in the US - you just can't. It's so much worse for them.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Pakistan violence: Quetta hospital under siege - at least 10 dead at hospital

Gunmen have attacked a hospital in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, hours after an explosion on a bus killed at least 11 female university students.

Hours later, gunmen stormed part of the hospital where the wounded were being treated, leaving at least 10 dead.
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Later explosions rocked the medical centre where the students were being treated,
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"They (the militants) are several in number, we are still facing resistance from them, and people are stranded inside the hospital. We are trying our best to rescue the people," said Jan Mohammed Bulaidi, spokesman for Balochistan's chief minister, Reuters reports.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22920542

The initial blast gutted the bus while it was on the campus of a local university for women, killing 11 students, and another explosion went off soon after at the hospital, the city's largest. Television footage showed people fleeing the building in panic. Shots were fired from automatic weapons.
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Those killed at the hospital included a senior government official, three security officials and a nurse, he said. The city's nursing federation said three more nurses and two family members of the student victims also died.

"The Frontier Corps troops have cleared certain parts of the hospital and they are moving forward," he said.
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The 500,000-strong community in Quetta has been subjected to a campaign of shootings and bombings by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ), a militant group dedicated to attacking Pakistan's Shi'ite Muslim minority.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/15/us-pakistan-rockets-idUSBRE95E03O20130615

[Beacool]

7. This story keeps getting worse.

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. These are the ideological brothers of the guys wwe're now allied with in Syria.

"Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ), a militant group dedicated to attacking Pakistan's Shi'ite Muslim minority."

[evilhime]

9. In a perfect world

I would be able to airlift EVERY female who would go out of countries such as this and let the men that remain die out since there would be no women there for procreation. At that point they could start again with a new group that hopefully has more intelligence.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Quetta university shut after attacks

The women's university at the centre of Saturday's deadly twin attacks in the Pakistani city of Quetta has been shut down until further notice.
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Sardar Bahadur Khan University is the only all-female university in troubled Balochistan province.
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The site of the five-hour gun battle that unfolded after the bus bombing, the sprawling Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta, has also been closed indefinitely.
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In January at least 81 people, mainly Shia Muslims, were killed in a bomb attack on a snooker hall in the city. And in February almost 90 died when a bomb ripped through a marketplace in a Hazara Shia part of the city.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22932747

I didn't know there were 2 big bomb attacks earlier this year too. And now a hospital and a university are closed.