Eight gunmen are
exchanging fire with police at the Bolan medical complex, authorities
said. Doctors, nurses and patients are trapped inside the hospital,
which is surrounded by security forces.
Among the patients are
more than 20 people wounded in a bus explosion that also killed at least
11 female university instructors, police said.
"All the victims are
women teachers and students," according to a police official, Mir Zubair
Mehmood, in Quetta. The blast shattered the windows of offices and
classrooms inside Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University.
The university bus was parked at the school, located on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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