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QUETTA, Pakistan – A senior Pakistani police officer says gunmen have taken over parts of a hospital in a southwestern Pakistan.Fayaz Sumbal, the head of police operations in Quetta, says armed men captured different sections of the hospital complex Saturday and were positioned on rooftops.He says Frontier Corps troops, and police commandos have been called in.An Associated Press reporter on the scene could hear intermittent gunfire as security officials took up positions around the building.The attack happened after two bomb blasts in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, including one at the hospital.Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/15/gunmen-take-over-hospital-in-southwestern-pakistan/#ixzz2WI0OvKRc
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's interior minister says the siege of a hospital in southwestern Pakistani has ended after security forces stormed the building.Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said forces freed 35 people trapped inside the building, killed four of the attackers and arrested another.He says four security forces and one top government officials died during Saturday's violence, which began when attackers set off a bomb in a corridor in the hospital's emergency room and then took over areas of the hospital.The interior minister did not have any information on the identity of the attackers, and there has been no claim of responsibility.
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