Eyewitnesses stated that scores of lawyers were injured due to the blast. A stampede ensued after the blast took place, causing anarchy and chaos everywhere.
A couple of minutes before the blast had taken place, the dead body of Bilal Anwar Kasi, the Balochistan Bar Association President who had been killed earlier in a firing incident.
Sources claimed that among the dead, mostly were lawyers since several had been present inside the hospital when the blast had taken place.
Hospital sources put the number of injured at more than thirty-five.
The blast took place at the external gate of the Emergency Department of the hospital, The NEWS reports.
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