Deadly blast hits hospital
2008-08-19 10:30
Peshawar - A bomb went off in
the compound of a hospital in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday
killing 20 people, a senior government official said.
"We don't know whether it was a suicide attack but the bomb
went off in the compound. I have initial reports of 20 dead,"
said Syed Mohsin Shah, a senior city government official.
Supporters of a Shi'ite Muslim leader were protesting
outside the hospital in the town of Dera Ismail Khan when the
bomb went off.
The Shi'ite leader was shot dead earlier on
Tuesday and his body taken to the hospital.
- Reuters