ISIS claims responsibility for gun & bomb attack on Pakistan church which left 8 dead, dozens injured

Dreaded international terror group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the gun and bomb attack at a church in the western Pakistani city of Quetta which claimed the life of eight people and left a dozen others injured.

Reports say no less than 200 worshipers were gathered for service at Bethel Memorial Methodist Church when the blood thirsty assailants struck with guns and bombs.

Recounting the incident which caught many unawares, eyewitnesses say a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the gate of the church, while a second attacker fired upon worshipers, before being killed by security forces at the scene.

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“We have cleared the immediate area around the church, and we are now clearing a peripheral area further out,” Moazzam Jah Ansari, police chief of Balochistan province, told reporters at the site of the attack.

“People were fleeing to the corners [of the church]. I couldn’t understand what was happening; it happened so suddenly,” a woman, who was at the church when the attack occurred, said on condition of anonymity.

Waseem Ahmed, an official at the nearby Civil Hospital, said 33 people were wounded in the attack.

 

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