University bus attack kills 24 people in Pakistan

Rescuers work at the blast site in southwest Pakistan's Quetta, June 15, 2013. At least 11 people were killed and 22 others injured as a blast hit a university bus in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Saturday afternoon, police said. (Photo: Xinhua/Mohammad)

Pakistani police say the death toll from attacks on a hospital and a women’s university bus in a southwestern provincial capital has increased to 24.

Senior police officer Fayaz Sumbal said Sunday that a doctor and two nurses who were critically wounded in the suicide attack on the Bolan Medical complex in the city of Quetta died overnight.
In the first of Saturday’s attacks in Quetta, a blast ripped through a bus carrying female students, killing 14.

Rescuers remove a victim's body at the blast site in southwest Pakistan's Quetta, June 15, 2013. At least 11 people were killed and 22 others injured as a blast hit a university bus in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Saturday afternoon, police said. (Photo : Xinhua/Mohammad)

When the victims were taken to the nearby hospital, a suicide bomber struck killing three plus the three who died later. Other attackers captured parts of the complex, triggering a siege by security forces in which four paramilitaries also died.

The radical Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group claimed responsibility for the attacks. Six attackers also died. <AP/NEWSis>