Breaking - Pakistan : 11 female students have died whereas 22 have been injured in a bomb blast in Quetta.

Pakistan: 11 female students have died whereas 22 have been injured in a bomb blast in Quetta.(ExpressTribune).

QUETTA: 11 female students have died whereas 22 have been injured in a bomb blast in Quetta on Saturday, according to our correspondent The bomb was planted in a bus at the parking lot of Sardar Badur Khan Women’s University just as students were heading home after school. The injured have been shifted to Bolan Medical Hospital and the Bomb Disposal Squad has arrived at the scene. The intensity of the blast has yet to be verified.Read the full story here.

Update: “It was an improvised explosive device placed in the women university bus” in Quetta, city police chief Zubair Mahmood told AFP.
“The dead were all women students,” he said.
The bomb exploded after the girls students had boarded and the bus was leaving the university.
“We are investigating if it was a remote controled bomb, the police official said.
Another police official Fayyaz Sumbal added the bus caught fire after the explosion and many students were critically wounded.