Concerns were raised in Pakistan on Friday about rising violence a day after extremist bomb attacks killed 125 people in one of the deadliest days for years.
Concerns were raised in Pakistan on Friday about rising violence; a day after extremist bomb attacks killed 125 people in one of the deadliest days for years.
Two suicide bombers killed 92 people and wounded 121 after they targeted a crowded snooker club in the sou
thwestern city of Quetta Thursday, in an area dominated by Shiite Muslims from the Hazara ethnic minority.
Extremist militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for what was the worst single sectarian attack ever.
It was the deadliest attack in Pakistan since twin suicide bombers killed 98 people outside a police training centre in the northwestern town of Shabqadar on May 13.
Earlier Thursday, a bomb detonated under a security force vehicle in a crowded part of Quetta, killing 11 people and wounding dozens.
A bomb at a religious gathering in the northwestern Swat valley killed 22 people and wounded more than 80.
At the snooker club, the first bomber struck inside the building then, 10 minutes later, an attacker in a car blew himself up as police, media workers and rescue teams rushed to the site, said police officer Mir Zubair Mehmood.
"The death toll is now 92. Some bodies were found from the blast site today," said police official Hamid Shakeel.
He said all but five of the victims had been identified and handed over to their families for burial later Friday.
Nine police, three local journalists, several rescue workers and a spokesman for the Frontier Corps paramilitary were among those killed, officials said.
