8 dead in hospital attack in Pakistan

Source: CNN International

April 16, 2010

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Eight people were killed Friday morning in an explosion at a western Pakistan hospital, authorities said.

The explosion occurred at a hospital in the city of Quetta, police said. Included in the dead were a journalist and a police officer, hospital officials said. More than 10 people were injured in the blast, the officials said.

In an unrelated incident, militants bombed a school in northwest Pakistan early Friday, officials said.

The attack on the five-room girls' school in the Charsada district of the North-West Frontier Province is the latest in a series of blasts that have destroyed dozens of schools in the area in recent years.

The attack occurred about 2 a.m. Friday, said Riaz Muhammad, Charsada district police officer.

Militants placed explosives in three parts of the school, Muhammad said.



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What are they hoping to accomplish? Fucking barbarians.