Suicide bomber kills 93 at hospital

At least 93 people were killed and 56 others injured in a suicide blast inside the emergency ward of a hospital in Pakistan's southwest Quetta city on Monday morning, local media and officials said.

Local Urdu TV channel ARY News said the dead included 25 lawyers and two journalists while there was a large number of lawyers and some journalists in more than 50 injured people who have been shifted to various hospitals in Quetta, the capital city of the country's southwest Balochistan province.

Rehmat Baloch, the health minister of Balochistan, confirmed the suicide blast left 93 people killed. "There are many wounded, so the death toll could rise," he said.