Carnage in Quetta: The day after

Published January 11, 2013
Pakistani volunteers rush an injured victim from a bomb blast in a commercial area to a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. – Photo by AP
Pakistani volunteers rush an injured victim from a bomb blast in a commercial area to a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. – Photo by AP
Pakistani security officials examine the site of a bomb attack in Quetta on January 10, 2013. – Photo by AFP
Pakistani security officials examine the site of a bomb attack in Quetta on January 10, 2013. – Photo by AFP
Local residents look at clothes left in a pile at the site of overnight twin suicide bombings in Quetta on January 11, 2013. – Photo by AFP
Local residents look at clothes left in a pile at the site of overnight twin suicide bombings in Quetta on January 11, 2013. – Photo by AFP
Pakistani Shiite Muslim mourners sit beside the coffins of blast victims at a mosque following overnight twin suicide bombings in Quetta on January 11, 2013. – Photo by AFP
Pakistani Shiite Muslim mourners sit beside the coffins of blast victims at a mosque following overnight twin suicide bombings in Quetta on January 11, 2013. – Photo by AFP
Local residents offer funeral prayers for a bomb blast victim in Mingora, the main town in the district, on January 11, 2013. An explosion at a religious gathering in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley that killed 22 people and wounded more than 80 was caused by a bomb, officials said Friday. – Photo by AFP
Local residents offer funeral prayers for a bomb blast victim in Mingora, the main town in the district, on January 11, 2013. An explosion at a religious gathering in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley that killed 22 people and wounded more than 80 was caused by a bomb, officials said Friday. – Photo by AFP
People inspect the site of yesterday's bomb blast in Quetta January 11, 2013. – Photo by Reuters
People inspect the site of yesterday's bomb blast in Quetta January 11, 2013. – Photo by Reuters
A Bomb disposal squad member checks the site of a blast a  in Quetta January 10, 2013. – Photo by Reuters
A Bomb disposal squad member checks the site of a blast a in Quetta January 10, 2013. – Photo by Reuters
A hand is seen under a sheet at a hospital morgue after the second bomb explosion in Quetta January 10, 2013. – Photo by Reuters
A hand is seen under a sheet at a hospital morgue after the second bomb explosion in Quetta January 10, 2013. – Photo by Reuters

As many as 102 people had been reported killed on Thursday night in suicide and car bomb blasts in Quetta’s Alamdar Road area whereas 12 people were reported killed the same day when a bomb went off near a vehicle of the Frontier Corps at Bacha Khan Chowk. Meanwhile in Swat at least 21 people were reported dead and 70 others were injured on Thursday when an explosion ripped through a religious entre. The Chief Minister of Balochistan, Aslam Raisani has announced a three-day mourning period in the province on Friday, following the huge loss of life caused by these blasts. In addition, a strike was also being observed in Quetta against the deadly car and bomb blasts. - Photo by Agencies

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