Pakistani city declares mourning as twin attacks leave 25 dead

PanARMENIAN.Net - A day of official mourning has been declared in the Pakistani city of Quetta after 25 people were killed by gunmen in twin attacks on Saturday, June 15, according to BBC News.

After a bomb on a bus killed 14 female students and injured 22, militants attacked a hospital treating survivors, where they killed another 11 people.

Four attackers were also killed and one arrested, officials say. No clear motive for the attack has yet been established but a Sunni Muslim militant group is being blamed.

A man purporting to be a spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi told the BBC the attacks were revenge for an earlier raid by security forces against the group, in which a woman and children were killed.

Quetta, a city of 900,000 people in the south-west of the country, has long been troubled by violence mainly targeting the Shia Muslim minority.

The city is reeling from a deep sense of shock, trying to make sense of Saturday's events, BBC News reported.